Back To Wyndham Town

 

Sunday 28 May – Wyndham

A more relaxed start to the day meant time for coffee in bed followed by pancakes for breakfast. Interesting cinnamon donut flavour – interesting but not sure would buy again.  The convoy left the CP around 9ish and headed along the road to Wyndham with the Benders hitching a ride with Shaun.  We stopped off to check out the Grotto where the young and the young at heart braved the 144 steps down to the pool at the bottom whilst us oldies sat at the top and watched, waved and “Kooyee’d”.   We were rewarded for our laziness by having a close up encounter with a rock wallaby who hadn’t realised we were sitting quietly on a nearby rock.

Back in the cars and Shaun dropped us off at Paul and Deb’s where we spent a happy couple of hours chatting and catching up.  Shaun piled into the other car and they headed off to check out the Moochalabra Dam, nearby rock art paintings and the prison boab tree.  After our good natter, we took Shaun’s car and headed down to the Croc Cafe and Bakery for a yummy pie (J had beef, L tried the garlic barramundi) and a jam donut.  The others weren’t far behind us and also indulged in pies and other bakery treats.

We then headed up the Five Rivers lookout for the good view of old Wyndham town and port as well as the five rivers.  It truly is a spectacular vista up there.

As Darryl realised that having a long range fuel tank doesn’t mean that you don’t actually have to put fuel in occasionally, and then realised Wyndham is probably the only town in Australia where you can’t actually get fuel on a Sunday, we curtailed our sightseeing and drove very economically back to Kununurra.  A quick stop at Coles for BBQ meat and salads for tomorrow then back to the vans for a leisurely late afternoon/evening with blogging (J) and motorcross watching (S&L) followed by salmon and steak cooked on the barbie down by the lake.  I think when we planned this meal we imagined having it whilst watching the sunset over the lake but, of course it getting dark by 5pm here, our 6.30pm dinner was done by torchlight and complete darkness.  Still lovely though.