As we headed out of Kununurra this morning we realised that
every kilometre from now on will be taking us closer to Perth and so, as of
now, we are very slowly heading home.
This fact was doubly brought home to us as we turned left onto the road
towards Halls Creek and the car compass pointed south and south-west instead of
the north and north-east it has shown for the last few weeks. Can't help feeling a little sad that our
holiday is already half over. We are
very comfortable in the van and can see ourselves able to do the grey nomad
thing happily in it in a few more years.
Jenny got back behind the wheel today for the first time in
a while having not been confident enough to try negotiating the corrugations of
the Gibb River Road towing three tonne of tippy-over behind her. The
road was pretty good up until around Warmun (formerly Turkey Creek) then it
became narrow with broken edges - not really befitting of a national highway -
come on Government! Still it was well
supplied with phone towers and we had good coverage all the way so Larry was
able to sit in the passenger seat and do some googling whilst Jenny drove. We stopped in Warmun to top up with fuel then
Larry drove the final leg to the Purnululu National Park turn off. One kilometre in and we pulled into the
Bungles Caravan Park. As it was
lunchtime the park was fairly empty and we were given a nice, large, quiet spot so
there was plenty of room to set up and we have a bit of screening from the many
other vans and campers that pulled in over the course of the afternoon.
As we have the next two days to explore the park this
afternoon was extremely lazy. Larry did
a few modifications to the roof rack to get rid of a creak that has developed
over the last couple of days and let the tyres down ready for some more off-roading and Jenny made some sandwiches and packed bags for
our overnight stay at the Bungles bush camp tomorrow night. Will be very strange to be out of our little
home for a night but better to stay in the park and see everything over the two
days than drive in and out on the rough access road each day.
After we'd done our chores, we shut up the caravan, put the
air conditioner on and watched 'The Iron Lady'and 'The Castle' on the telly
using Larry's hard drive. Once the sun
started going down and it was a bit cooler we strolled around the park and checked
out all the other vans before going back to ours and making pizzas for dinner.
Tomorrow morning we will be up early and off to the Bungles
for a couple of days!
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