Monday 27 August 2007

Zebra Rocks and not much else

Sunday was a day of rest really. I think we needed it after our busy two days at the Bungle Bungles. We did a few housekeeping tasks like shopping, washing etc but didn’t really do much touristy stuff except go up to the Lookout in Kununurra and take a look around. Today we went to Top Rockz and looked at the lovely things they make from Zebra stone and other beautiful rocks. (this is the only link I could find to show you what zebra stonelooks like: http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~smorris/edl/zebra_rock/zebra_rock.html )We bought a couple of things and then headed back to town and had morning coffee before hitting the highway to Halls Creek. One thing we did discover is that the name of the main street in Kununurra which I thought was funny is the name of a tree; a Konkerberry. The reason we found it out was that they had a lovely bookmark made of the timber. The vegetation along the road to Halls Creek changed as we got closer, there are some big cattle stations along there judging by the signs up such as, “Alice Downs” and there were lots of fairly big red kangaroos dead along the side of the road too. We saw some Red-tailed black cockatoos in trees along the way also.
Apart from what I have described above, there isn’t much to say about today except we couldn’t’ find the Hotel-Motel we are staying in. It was meant to be a Country Comfort and surprisingly was in the Tom Tom but we couldn’t find it even when it said, “You have reached your destination”. Eventually, after looking up the address again we decided to try the Kimberly Hotel that was definitely not a Country Comfort and found that it was the one we are booked into. It must have changed since being listed in the latest accommodation guide!
Tomorrow we will check out a few places of interest on our way to Fitzroy Crossing.

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