After 4 days in Kununurra, we left yesterday morning to for 2 nights at the Bungle Bungle Caravan Park and a day trip into the Purnululu NP. Not a long day, about 300 K’s but we stopped for fuel at Doon Doon and then lunch at Turkey Creek (you gotta love the names). Camp set up and then up to happy hour at the Barabarvan. Unfortunately it wasn’t really happy hour when you had to pay $12 for a can of Bundy!

The Bungle Bungles are another unique landscape that we seem to have all over Oz! Unfortunately its a 2 hour drive into the park over rough (very rough in places) road, with a number of creek crossings. Then you have the Beehive Domes and Cathedral Gorge at the south end of the Park and Echidna Chasm, Ormandy Lookout, The Bloodwoods, Stonehenge and Kungkalanayi Lookout in the north of the park.

Sue, Andrew and I spent 8 hours travelling thru the park today, whilst Susan had a home day. It was just on 200 K’s of travelling on rough dirt roads so we were all a bit shaken by days end, despite Andrew’s sterling driving effort. Whilst we didn’t cover everything in the park, we missed the Bloodwoods and Kungkalanyi Lookout, we still marvelled at what we saw.

We leave tomorrow, heading southwest thru Halls Creek on our way to Derby but before we get to Derby in we have a single free camp night about 60 K’s short of Fitzroy Crossing. The reports about Halls Creek, Fitzroy Crossing and Derby are not favourable, there has been a lot of issues with the local indigenous folk, so hopefully we’ll be okay.