Pics

The local bulls/cows dont mind sharing the campgrounds with us Im sure they love having their pics taken as they happily wander around the camps and chew on the grass.   The lovely bull below, just wandered in as we were having happy hour.  We were camped up on the Ord River and he came up from the river to check us all out.

This is a park in Wyndham.  We were looking forward to visiting this town.  Had planned to stay overnight at a free camp and spend the day here.  Arrived at 10 and were out of there by 12.  No way would we leave our bus here unattended, it was dirty and disgusting, nothing to see, the tourist brochures were quite descriptive of an old historic port etc etc.  but it was a nothing less than horrid.    Bordered up/smashed/trashed houses, vehicles etc.  This park was dedicated to the Aboriginal ancestry of the town, the signs were all broken, the weeds had overtaken the "park", the billabong was dried up, the bridges and paths overtaken by weed and trash, the statues, covered in paint and there were at least 3 aboriginal families strewn over the park, obviously living in the mess.   An aboriginal lady offered me a carved Boab seed pod for $30.  She had encouraged her 12 y.o. to carve it.  He needed to earn cash to support them. Further questioning of her, she had been thrown out of her community and now lived in the park, she told me she was much happier not having a house as she beleived it was best for her kids to be bought up with nature, here in the park.!!!!!!!   What hope does these kids have?   Anyway we decided this town wasnt for us and headed off down the Highway.   Quite disgusted with the Council for allowing such vandalism.

These are all pics from our trip down the Ord River.  You can see the beauty of the rock formations that are everywhere here in this part of W.A.    We then headed down towards the Bungle Bungles.   The MUST DO of this region.  We werent keen to drive in and see them by car.   You just cant see and appreciate them from the ground. But if you wanted to see them that way, then you really need to spend 2-3 days in the Park.  Its very much a 4WD high clearance drive in and around the Nat.Park.    None of us wanted to do it.  The alternative was to do a flight over them.  It was pricey and the budget just wasnt going to keep stretching, so we will save it for another time.   A quick visit to Halls Creek was next, fuelled up, checked out the Tourist Info, decided there was nothing there to see and kept going.  Now parked up at Fitzroy Crossing.  Off to Geike Gorge tomorrow for a cruise thru the Gorge.  Should be lovely, quite possibly the end of our gorges.  We have seen so many, all of them different and almost all of them beautiful.

The road from Kununurra to here, has been extremely boring.  Very little to see, much greener than the N.T. but towns/stops are few and far between.  Need to be very mindful of your fuel etc.  The only saving grace is every now and then you come across a magnificent mountain range, mostly rock, but the colors are stunning, reds, browns, blacks,trees and tufts of bright green grass scattered thru them.  Makes the long expanses of flat highway worth it when these turn up.