Western Australia here we come…

After passing the Granites (a rather large GOLD mine site) also known as the Tanami Mine which is approximately 540klms NW of Alice Springs & has been in operation since 2002, the corrugations were minimal & we saw quite a lot of fungi growing on the roadside (very hard solid dirt), we stopped so I could actually dig one out a bit – definitely not edible. The termite mounds were prolific on both sides of the border & rather large. The grevilleas put on an amazing show as well as a few other specimens of vegetation.

Our next stop, Wolfe Creek Cater – WOW! it is approximately 20klms off the Tanami hwy but well worth the drive,

There is a small campground (8 camping bays with a couple of rather large ones that would cater for a few vehicles if they were in a group) – free camping & 3 x drop toilets. Very nice. We camped up for the night & made tracks to Halls Creek the next morning.

Once we on the Great Northern Hwy, we drove north, Boab country – what majestic trees they are & so many, we passed a few interesting rock formations & kapok flowering bordered the hwy. We drove over the Bow river which was actually running with a reasonable amount of water still in it, the majority of creeks near the road had some water in them too – a bit unusual for this time of year but the late rainfall in the top end of WA enabled this. We got to Kununurra mid-afternoon.