sunset on the rocks out the back of the zoo, chrissy day, our day off!

and looking other way at the real thing.

this thing came wandering past our camp at Lake Dora, on the way out to Kunawarritji. and below is our campsite at Lake Dora. there were a set of wheel tracks running off into the scrub that came out at this large clearing, we couldnt find it on the way back. 

just me and Lyn, and about 3.5 million bloody flies, flies buggared off after sunset but were back bright and early to help us pack up!!!

the motel units at Kunawarritji, we stayed in one for few nights till Bill N Raelene left and again on the last night there and below is the tyre that blew on the way there, just needs a plug eh?

Corky decided to burn off the dead grass in the backyard of the CDOs house(our house) he found this little tiger snake in the yard. it died in the fire, next day the birds/goanna had taken it away. he found quite a few tigers cleaning up around the community.

 front of the CDOs house, i actually cable tied an old bed frame across the right hand corner, to stop Betty from walking down the verandah and looking in the lounge room window! the window on the left of the door was where the computer was, she used to look in there too and also the one next to it (behind the ute) which was our bedroom!

 inside the kitchen, Betty couldnt get to that window, Bill had an old security door across the front on that side.

the lounge room, with two Betty windows down the side wall. aussie day, half day holiday! but as usual, nothing on the idiot box, we had digital satellite which gave us all states ABC/SBS plus 10, one, WIN, GO, GEM, 7 perth, 72 and 7 mate, plus foxtel, and still had trouble finding anything worth watching!

bird on the power lines out the back of the house, probabaly looking for tiger snakes in back yard? think this is a kite(?)

and well 33 on the canning stock route, the campground is here and was fairly well flooded for most of our time there,

this was taken after the water level had dropped, where the ute is parked and the entrance behind it were all under couple inches of water. the road to the community heads out of picture about mid way up the right had side, and the airport about same spot on left had side of photo.

 water was chockers with tadpoles, and below, quite a few had turned into frogs, hundreds of little buggars jumping around, probably about the size of a ten cent piece.

Canning stock route north out of the campground, and below, on the way out to the mail plane. 

intersection of Gary Junction Road and the Canning Stock Route.

main street kunawarritji

 Lyns outback store

kunawarritji HACC centre, was closed for most of our time there, Taz & Tish got caught in Hedland with the floods. Luckily they took the two old girls who they were looking after, with them

kunawarritji school yard, the school building is in the back ground, Corky found few tigers up here whilst clearing out the yard before school started, the road openned for 3 or 4 days between floods and the new teachers arrived.The kids finally turned up couple of weeks after start of school year, as they were on other side of the floods.

 we had a pig in the community, it arrived as a piglet and somehow survived?? it used to hang with the dogs till they got sick of each other, and he would wander about on his own for few days, till the dogs started talking to him again.

 not only did we have a tiger snake in back yard, we also had a ghecko on the window too!

couple turned up to live in this house, found a dead dog on the floor, cleaned the dog out but it had left this mark in the concrete! might have been there for some time! they had to move house again as this one got zapped and blew/destroyed  the main fuse in the meter box! sparkie turned up to fix it after we left, he too, was stuck on the other side of the floods!

 murals on the walls of the old store.

damage from a cyclone that hit before we got there.

 aussies most remote bus stop??? nobody knows who put this up, but they went to a lot of trouble, pinched/borrowed a really truely bus stop sign and the seat is stuck to the pole.

this is the crossing on the Oakover River that was causing us angst before we left kunawarritji, a week before we were due to leave this crossing had about 3M of water over it! when the floods finally went down, the crossing had taken damage and finally opened to 4WD and trucks at 3pm on the thursday, we were due to leave on the sunday, just chucked a heap of gravel in the hole and shes a goer!  there were some fairly bad wash outs back along the dirt before we got here.

 i counted 100 carriages before i took this photo, and reckon there close to another hundred still to come. bloody mines!!!!

Bunda Cliffs great aussie bight!

a heap (?) of holdens some of the many wrecks in the paddock at Koonalda, NPWS have been out since we were there about 18 months ago and done a stack of work restoring the old homestead and hut all the rubbish has been removed and walls/ceilings lined, really tarting the old place up. Koonalda was the first fuel stop on the dirt after you left Eucla coming East, but looked better heading west, cause it meant you only had 160 miles to the bitumen!!!

OH WOE, WOE AND DOUBLE WOE!!!!  AFTER COMING ALL THE WAY FROM KUNAWARRITJI ON THE DREAM OF BARTAGUNYAH PORT, THE BLOODY JOINT WAS SHUT!!!!!! HAVE APPLIED TO FED GOV FOR DISASTER RELIEF!!! EVEN DROVE DOWN TO THE HOUSE AND RATTLED THE DOORS AND WINDOWS!!!!!

have absolutely no idea what this is about, these road side signs are thru south aussie? bit creepy eh!

a bird in the bush, at our campsite at martins bend just south of Berri SA

our campsite at martins bend, another free camp site, we had to head to Kerang to a caravan park after this, we hadnt done any washing since we left Kalgoorlie a week before and were running out of clothes.

and another bird, this one was on the wetlands walk, they have carp gates fitted that they close when the river starts to inundate the wetlands, keeps the big carp out and the native fish and birds eat the little carps.