Today is my birthday. 55 years old, I hope I am eligible for some insurance discounts now!
We left nice and early to head all the way up to Wyndham.
Our first stop was a lookout, can't recall the name of it now but it overlooked a valley and nice typical Kimberly escarpment.
We then went out to the port area of Wyndham and what a deserted ghost town it is. All the businesses, including the pub, hospital, post office etc are all empty and abandoned.
There are some displays of old equipment from years gone by and a nice new jetty but thats about it.
We had a look at a few cemeteries which are always interesting but also very sad of course. Especially a recent grave of an 11 year old girl girled in a car accident in town with a 12 year driver being silly.
There is a mural of her on the supermarket in town, it was a big shock to the small remaining community back in the other section of Wyndham.
Speaking of the populated area, it has a caravan park, supermarket, bottleshop of course and most other things you would expect a small community to have.
We went to a cafe for a nice lunch and ice cream as my treat for my birthday haha
We looked around town and took photos of the touristy stuff like the big crocodile and I mean really big crocodile they have at the entrance to the town, it must be a 20 metre long ornament. There are some nice aborigine statues and some murals.
On the way back we looked at the afgan cemetery where they bury the camel with the master when he dies!
We went into a billabong that was full of bird life and even saw a croc. Needless to say Karen spent a long time there getting bird photos. Up on the hill in the same area is the site of an old communications area or something along those lines.
We then got to a place they called the Grotto. It is an all year round swimming hole down in an escarpment. There are 140 natural and sort of man made steps to get down into it but it is a beautiful location. The water was a bit too murky for us which was a shame because we were ready for a swim.
On the way back we had a look at some Boab trees. We were going to pop into another natural springs but it was getting quite late so we decided to leave it for the next few days if we get a chance. You just cant see everything in every place you visit.
There was quite a hold up on the bridge getting back into town for some reason so we sat there with 100's of other stranded motorists for about half hour.
Back and camp we had a nice tea and went to bed after a long day.