It's not as tropical as around Katherine and large boab trees became more prominent as we neared the border. They are very unusual trees and grow to an enormous size.
We are camped here at Zebra Rock mine and it's very interesting. The zebra rock - so named for its stripes - is found nowhere else in the world and this is the only mine of its type. The rock has been dated to be over 2 billion years old and has geologists puzzled at its uniformity as most patterns in nature are random. It's a beautiful rock and is cut and polished for items of jewellery and large pieces would make amazing bench tops. Even the rocks in their natural state are beautiful and we would love some in our garden.
Now we are packing up and heading towards Kununurra - not sure where we'll end up but we are keen to see the lake from the other side. We are delighted to learn we've had rain at last at home and hope it's a proper break in the season. We're also relieved to hear you are feeling better Archer - we've all been thinking of you. 😘.
This mine is owned by the couple who also run the campground. The husband grew up on the station here before they built the lake, so he's a very knowledgable chap. It's quite rustic with only basic amenities - no power, phone, Internet, and only cold water showers (but don't feel sorry for us as it comes out prefect temperature for this hot humid weather) The owners go out of their way to make guests feel welcome and we've appreciated the free tea, coffee and cold water, use of their facilities for our picnic lunch and they offer fish and chips dinner (which were delicious - fresh fish caught in the lake) and tours. We were very interested in hearing the story of the zebra rock and looking at the items for sale in the gallery. We just had to buy some mementoes!!
Here we are having pre dinner drinks before our fish 'n chips. 
Today we went for a drive into the Keep National Park and were very impressed with the campground there where we had our picnic lunch - we've moved onto Saladas now instead of the cruskits!!
The water lilies on this little lagoon were magnificent: no swimming here though 🐊🐊
We are booked into a sunset cruise tonight and can't wait. Darryl is busy bird watching and hoping like anything that he sights a Gouldian Finch. The only thing we water babies are missing is a place to jump in and get cool - we've had more showers than normal as it's rather humid 😓. Tonight on the cruise however, we can swim in Lake Argyle so we are looking forward to that very much. Thís place is on the NT side of the border and we travel through some wetlands before we reach the Lake.
Our sunset cruise was lovely - the lake is huge and even though it's only about 80% full after a poor wet season. The bird life in the wetlands as we approached the lake gave Darryl plenty to snap at and the brolgas especially were beautiful. We saw a few fresh water crocs - this one sat beautifully for photos!
Luckily these aren't dangerous.
We loved the swim out in the lake with our noodles - the water was a beautiful temperature and very refreshing.
We were lucky the sunset was just beautiful and sipping a champagne, watching it out on this huge lake was perfect. How fortunate are we?
So till our next blog, farewell from us as we head into Western Australia. xxxxxxxx
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