Ord River Paddle

Had a fabulous paddle up through the water creeks to the Ord River this morning. Left early and smothered in sun cream, still managed to get burned! The area is alive with bird lift, fish, amazing plants and the dredded bats. I’ve never seen anything like it. The smell, the sounds, and where we’re parked at the camp ground, at about 4pm each day they start leaving their nests about 1km from us and flying over ready for their nights activities. It takes about 15 minutes for the hundreds and hundreds of bats to fly over. Its just such an amazing sight.

Another glorious day. We headed into town, returned one of our great Art House DVDs we borrowed from the local library. It’s a shame, as the one DVD store in Kununurra has more “quality” films than all the DVD stores in Mandurah put together!

Had dinner at the Barra Shak. Fish was fresh, but service left a lot to be desired. Not on my list of places to return to.

Still cant believe the bird life here in Kununurra. As we are surrounded on 3 sides by wetlands, we are privileged to watch the many water birds at work. Day and night we have ducks, larks, ibis, jacana’s (cute little birds with long legs and skinny long toes that allow them to walk on the water lilies and pond scum as steve calls it. I must admit its hard to paddle through it all, but its such a rich and diverse alive area of Australia. I guess there are the downsides of the Ord River Scheme, but it’s a really picturesque part of WA.

Midget had a bone for dinner, and had a willie wagtail hanging around for ages trying to get a bit. She kept scaring it off, but it wasnt taking no for an answer. The picture shows just how close it got. It hung around for over half an hour trying to scare her away from her bone!

Our neighbour tonight was an amazing girl who's gorgeous boarder collie who was just 16 months old and came in seconds on a whistle and was the most obediant dog I'd ever seen. He was gorgeous and enjoyed playing with Midget. Anyway his owner was a young girl from QLD who was off to get a job mustering along the Gibb River Road and then head home to QLD to get a job on a station. She was just lovely. A true blue dinkie di aussie!