Friday, 31 August 2012

El Questro -Kunanurra- Bungle Bungles



We were awake at some ridiculous hour like 5.30am packing  and eating breakfast . We wanted to get going early as we needed to see about Oliver's armpit as the rash he had started to spread down his arm , the closest to anything was Kunanurra where there is a pharmacy and if he's in need of medical attention there is a hospital too. Poor Oliver he was concerned but it wasn't worrying him at all. It's just we were off to the Bungle Bungles and we would be out in a remote area. So  on the way out on the Gibb River road about half hour drive , we stopped and did the Emma Gorge, this is a must, if anyone is up this way, it was hard going as we had to walk up and over rocks and the walk was to take an hour one way, 3.2 km one way. Oh my the thought had me concerned with Lily as she wants up all the time. She did well on the way down but can't say much for the way back, I don't blame her. Emma Gorge was like a big , WOW, when we finally reached the end. A huge swimming hole and the sceanary amazing. Boys swam and then Lily wanted to but it was slightly cold, so many screams as Mark just grabbed her and she went in. Around  the right hand side was a hot spring area, much warmer than the water coming down the waterfall . Lily was happy in the warm water and guess what her friend Ella and family arrived and she swam in the warm area with Ella. I just sat and enjoyed the serentity . A big goanna ( a water montior) came out onto the rocks. Weren't quick enough to take a photo though.  Okay we started the trek back, another 3.2km and this time Mark just carried Lily, it made it quicker. Couldn't wait for the airconditioned car. On the way to Kunanurra, another 1.5  hours away. Got into Town and Oliver and I went straight to the pharmacy to ask the pharmacist. ( where's Wendy when we need her, oh that's right on holiday).  We saw a fantastic pharmacist, Gareth, who took a look and suggested he may have come into contact with a plant or a bite of some sort. He recommended a cream and said to put that on. He checked out the rest of his torso making sure it hadn't spread anymore, we were right so we went and got more thongs for me and Mark picked up a few grocery items. Lunch on the road,  to the  Bungles Bungles approx 3 hour more to drive. We got to Turkey Creek and saw a caravan park and thought do we stay here, it was 4.30pm, we'll push on ,  I'm sure there's a Bungle Bungle caravan park further on. I had looked up on our camps Australia book that there was a free camp we could go to which was 50 km north of Turkey Creek, we'll head to that. We better, the sun started to look like it was going down. We managed to have got 48km north and saw a sign caravan park bungle bungles, hooray! We had to open the gate and drive in. Okay, no power sites, but that's okay we have had no power for the last 2 nights what's another 2 nights. So the young girl says to mark, I'll take you to your site, she steps outside and points to a boab tree and says, see all those caravans on th left on the grass, just find a spot somewhere there. We quickly unpacked a few things but dinner was more important so we dished out hotdogs to everyone, then we could unpack, as it was dark by now but the moon is almost full and that seems to be giving us alot of light. All of a sudden we see this enormous bull, standing in the middle of the camper area, Dylan jumped Behind the car and I thought, OMG, it was like a huge lion. These were bulls, Big Braman bulls,I say these as there were 4 of them. They hang around at night, oh crap, we've had kangaroos, dingoes, wallabies,ants and now bulls. I know, funny hey. 

Beautiful Emma Gorge

Hooray, we made it back, after walking 6.4km.
Check this beautiful Palm out.

The Braman Bull that happened to appear at camp at the Bungle Bungles.

Continued tonight with our UNO championship, Oliver trying to catch mark as he leads. 

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