This is the Ivanhoe crossing where I was fishing from the other day. I was standing on the roadway in the shallow water to the left of the photo. This seemed to be a problem for some of the visitors and Gabriella. They were expecting a croc to come out of nowhere to eat me. The locals said there were crocs in the river but only freshwater ones. 

Anyway I fished that area for a little while until I was ear bashed enough to move. I ended up fishing where the guy is behing the Pandanas trees on the safe side of the crossing. A little bit too fast flowing for my liking. Anyway I filled in a bit of time but no fish. A lot of people say it's too cold for Barra at this time of the year. Well it was warm enough for me to stand in the water and fish. The area left of the sign is where I was trying as it was still water and probably had more luck than in the fast flowing river.

We travelled to Wyndham which is about 100ks from Kununurra the next day and it was a one horse town. No only kidding, this is a port for exporting the iron ore and cattle from for the area. The setup is very interesting with a large expanse set aside for the storage of both cattle and iron ore. The road trains truck everything in from hundreds of klms away and we would run into them either coming or going from the site. The iron ore is then loaded onto barges and pulled out to the ships to be loaded in the middle of the river. It looked like a hard way to do things but it must work.

It was off to the Bungle Bungles yesterday. We stayed overnight at the Spring Creek rest stop and drove the 53klms into the visitors centre. The sign didn't say it was another 27klms to the actual Bungle Bungles. Oh did I mention that the road was not sealed and 4x4. By the time we arrived we had a walk around and took some pictures of the area. These amzing structures are facinating to look at and you wonder how they were formed. The river bed was even better with a wide expanse of stone washed over by the water to form some brilliant ruts.

The river bed at this point would have been 30mtrs wide and ran through the gorge. The weathering of the rock must be hundreds of years old if not more and would be a sight to see when the river is following. The colour of the rocks change when the sun slowly dips behind them and others light up as you drive through the track on the way out. It was a rugged drive in and I lost a couple of stubbies due to the rough road. The woman at the information centre warned me that if you leave while the sun was going down you would drive right into it. Well she was right as on a few occasions I nearly ended up off the road or flying over a dip in the road because I got blinded by the light. Yep the old Supertramp song came in handy after that. I was lucky as there were  three tour buses leaving at the same time and making a lot of dust that added to the poor conditions, they thankfully slowed and let me past. Well we managed to do that in one day and get back to camp a hot shower to get the red dust out of our hair and have a cold beer. We heaed out today to Fitzroy Crossing and cleaned the car up a little as the dust is everywhere. Everytime you open a door it ends up everwhere. I am looking forward to getting into some sun and beach. I have had the red dust for now and will gratefully exchange that for some fish. I hope there are fish in WA as the other states have been very poor in that department. Well we head for the coast tomorrow and will be in Broome by early afternoon and hopefully on the beach late afternoon. We have had a bit of trouble getting accommodation along the coast so I hope things pan out and we can arrange enough stays up the northern end. Anyway I'm stuffed and heading to bed. Bye for now.