Bungle Bungles

Did you know that in SA and NT, Victoria time goes back half an hour, and in Western Australia,Victoria time goes back two hours, meaning to say that right now as it is 9:11pm in Victoria, it is 7:11pm here, in Western Australia.

I’m having such a good time here we are just over the border of Western Australia and in Kununurra.
This morning(at 4:45am, WA time) we got up and dressed in less than half an hour and headed to the gazebo at the front of the caravan park where we waited to get on the bus to the airport to board the plane to the Bungle Bungles!
When we got to the airport we waited in the reception room and were quickly advised of where water and toilets were. We were introduced to our pilot and when “Four adults and two children,” were mentioned, the other pilot joked and said “Well counting him (our pilot) there’s three kids!”
we left the building and walked on the tarmac to the plane . When we reached the plane we were shown how to board and get out of it. Then we got in. There were only seven of us including the pilot, as there were two other planes going up as well, so it was not too tight or noisy.

Ready for take off

Once we were in the air we flew across:first Diversion Dam which diverts the Upper Ord River through Lake Kununurra to the Lower Ord River, second Lake Argyle which is 10,763,000 mega litres, which in comparison to Sydney Harbour, is around 23 times larger in volume and can be up to 63 times larger in flood conditions, third was Smoke Creek, fourth was Lissadell Station, fifth was the Argyle Diamond Factory, and a couple of the last few things to see before the Bungles was Texas Downs Station and the Osmand Ranges which appear as two seperate waves of rock.
Then finally arrived at the Bungle Bungles!

A photo doesn't show how big or how colourful they are! Those fuzzy bits on the green are large gum trees.

The rock formation and colour was amazing, but sadly I was drawn towards motion sickness, but I was not sick.
So on the way back we passed all the same stuff and I got really dizzy, but thanks to Mrs Hamilton (my teacher, for those of you who don’t know)I used her strategy of looking into the horizon where the sky meets the land.
And so we came into land and because we took the morning flight we got served breakfast at the Ivanhoe Cafe, including: a salad, baked beans, eggs, toast and bacon.
After we were dropped off, back at our caravan park we left again and visited some of the local attractions, including:the local gallery and zebra rock souvenir shops.
Then we came back and swam and at 5:19pm we went up to Kelly’s Knob and watched the sun set.

(Sadly during the flight we could not land and take a look around at the places we flew above.)