Monday 28th July

At the Bungle Bungle.

We awoke to our coolest morning for some time, 6 degrees. However, by the time the sun was up, the temperature was rising very quickly. By 1400, the temperature was about 32 degrees. A big variation during the whole day, but nice.

This morning, unfortunately, was taken up with getting sorted out with our damaged vehicle. Numerous long phone calls to the insurance company. Then waiting for return calls from the Tow truck operator, the Repairer in Kununurra and the Insurance Company.

We started at about 0800 and finished about 1130. Then we came back to the vehicles and sorted out the dust in the back of the Bravo, especially. Many of the covered tubs had dust on them and at some stage they are going to have to be removed. Even the other items had to be dusted off. After doing this it was too warm to go walking to the nearest lookout about 2 kms away. Probably later in the day or even tomorrow morning.

During this time, I was asked if I could do a massage. So the table and its cover had to be dusted off. Never know when a job comes up. Having no vehicle means we cannot get to see much at all.

After all the calls this morning, the final plan is that the Tilt Tray recovery truck will be here about 1300 tomorrow and will take the Bravo and the Kimberley Karavan back to Kununurra. They will probably be back in town early evening. We have booked for a week in the Caravan Park we only left on Sunday morning.

Rather than go with the Tilt Tray we have opted to do a flight from the Bungle Bungle to Kununurra with Slingair. They depart the airfield here at 1545 and we get the scenic flight over the Bungle Bungle, Lake Argyle and the Argyle Diamond Mine. The only disadvantage is that we will not have walked through the great spectacle. So close yet so far! The flight will be spectacular, I am sure. We had thought about doing it when we returned to Kununurra but not this way.

The Park staff has been so friendly and very helpful. This has made our situation more bearable. As we look as though we will have to terminate our tour, we are having a Barbeque this evening with the 5 staff that is here. They said they would enjoy that. They are mostly here for at least 2 weeks before they go to town, so the mention of some red wine and nice steak is welcome. A very nice evening with these kind people and they enjoyed our Kurrajong Downs Soft Red Wine, too.