Hello all It's been quite a while since I updated, too long, so I thought I had better get blogging. A lot has happened since I last did an update. I have has a 145 litre ARB Frontier Long Range tank fitted to the Hilux. These are a Poly tank, the steel tanks don't like the roads up here and all steel tanks seem to crack on the rough Kimberley Roads. This should give me about 1000km range.
Lightning over Lilly Lagoon
The missing Wet Season.............I had heard and seen so much about waterfall Season......well this year it took a wrong turn and ended up in Queensland.
A bit over a dozen or so thunderstorms do not make a Wet Season. We have been going places since Christmas that should not be accessible this time of the year.
The Grotto after a 50mm thunderstorm
Some thunderstorms have only delivered a few millimeters of rain.........bad news for people doing the Gibb this year..............it will be dry.
Thompson Springs
In January we headed out to Thompson Springs for a swim. In days past this used to be the local swimming hole for Early Kununurra. Unfortunately due to the lack of Wet Season was refreshing but slimy.
Thompson Springs
Next was a trip out to the spillway at Lake Argyle on another stinking hot and humid day.
Even Lake Argyle is low
There has been an addition to the Brumby Family that lives out there since I was last there.
Shortly afterwards the Water Corp decided to drop the level of Kununurra Diversion Dam for maintenance work.
Celebrity Tree Park minus the water frontage
Lilly Lagoon without the Lagoon
Ivanhoe Crossing while draining the lake
A few weeks later we headed into Secret Springs, are area usually way too wet to access this time of year. It just proves our lack of Wet Season the Year.
It was an awesome day despite being 41C
bogged
This is what happens when you are using "active track" on the drone and not paying attention to track conditions. Just as you get stuck, the drone beep "low battery" and you try to land on the roof of your ute as a mate kindly hooks up the snatch strap.
getting snatched out
A few weeks later we journeyed into Harry's Hole, another place which should be too wet this time of year.
Heading to Harry's
Heading to Harry's
the crew
I thoroughly enjoyed the scenery along the track, this is a special part of the Kimberley.
I can think of worse places to spend a 39c Sunday afternoon
It was another awesome day and time was getting away, so it was a late afternoon trip back to the main road.
the track?
the track
More recently we headed out to Bindoola Falls, as Main Roads opened the Pentecost Crossing the day before.
Bindoola Falls
Bindoola Falls
cooling off
It was blistering hot out in the stone country, but on the upside it was excellent not to see another vehicle the whole time. That will certainly change soon enough as the tourists arrive. I don't expect much to happen over the next few weeks as we are getting ready for a 10 day epic trip to Kalumburu over Easter, before the masses mess up the road and crowd us out. 10 days, I hear you say...........remember I am 35 minutes from the Gibb River Road and 7-8 hours from Kalumburu. So 10 days.........can't wait Bye for now..............
