Category: Black Rock Falls

Kununurra Sunset over Lily Creek Lagoon

LOTS of COOL Things to Do in Kununurra, Western Australia

Black Rock Falls, Cane Toad Racing, Kimberley, Kununurra, Lake Argyle, Lily Creek Lagoon, Mirima National Park, Ngamoowalem Conservation Park, Ord River, Things to do, Travel, Western Australia

The day we got to Kununurra WA started WAY too early. As the clock ticked over past midnight, Are You Lonesome Tonight and I was only 19 thundered from (respectively) the vehicle cab and the top-of-the-range caravan parked next to us in Timber Creek. Yes, you’re right. You’d have to be VERY drunk for that to sound good. A couple[…]

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Big Bend, Murray River via Swan Reach, South Australia

13 Aussie Place Names that WON’T keep you guessing …

Australian Round Up, Big Bend, Black Mountain, Black Rock Falls, Boulder Beach, Circular Pool, Five Rivers Lookout, Mt Buffalo, Pink Lake, Porcupine Gorge, Redbank Gorge, Redbanks, Rhino Head, Snowy River, The Pyramid, Yellow Water

Despite lacking maps to guide them, visitors to OZ – whether overseas tourists or aliens from beyond the Southern Cross – need not fear losing their way. In some parts of Australia, anyway. Where, thanks to the daring imagination and colourful speech of our colonial past, working out your location can be as simple as describing what you see.  So[…]

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Reflections at Black Rock Falls, via Kununurra, Western Australia

Good Day at Black Rock Falls! Kununurra, Western Australia

Black Rock Falls, Kimberley, Kununurra, Ord River, Things to do, Travel, Victoria Springs, Western Australia

Bloated from a surfeit of mango smoothies from several Ord River irrigation scheme produce outlets and cafés during a mini-heatwave, we finally left Kununurra for the day and hit the Parry Creek Road eatery-free zone. Going cold turkey was the only way to break the smoothie stranglehold, whether or not our abstinence caused the producers financial hardship. While the significant[…]

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