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Day 20 – Time to go home
To return home, we had to fly via Sydney. We spent our last day doing a lot of waiting – waiting to go to the airport and waiting for delayed flights. Waiting has been a big part of this trip along with, ‘Closed due to lack of staff.’ We felt for the many businesses that…
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Day 19 – Horizontal Falls
We spent a quiet morning before being picked up and taken to the airport for our flight to Cygnet Bay and the Horizontal Falls. Our original trip, which included a boat ride through the falls, had been cancelled and this was the next best thing. Our pilot was Michael, who was a bit of a…
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Day 18 – Sunset Dinner Cruise
We caught a bus into town again. We, as in Donna and I, explored the shops and Donna found a lovely dress to wear for the afternoon cruise. We had another coffee at the Green Mango Cafe and retuned to our accommodation. At 1pm, we were picked up and taken to the beach our cruise…
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Day 17 – Sunset camel ride
We took the bus into town to the Info. Centre. Two minutes into the trip, someone alerted us to the fact that a red and black bag had been left at our pick-up stop. It was Wayne’s. He quickly asked the driver to stop, got off and went back to retrieve the bag. We continued…
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Day 16 – Tattoos and Broome
Last night, we all made the commitment to get NT 2022, WA 2021 and UK 2019 tattooed on our backsides…in Donna’s dream. Donna even knew what each of us were wearing and asked for a discount to get TAS 2023 done as well. Much to our dismay, Mark received a phone call cancelling our Horizontal…
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Day 15 – Canoeing Lake Argyle
We began our last full day at Kununurra with a canoe at Lake Argyle. On our 70km trip to the lake, we saw these two most amazing birds. Due to the previous day’s bad weather, there was some reluctance from a couple of our tour members to partake in this activity. As it turns out,…
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Day 14 – It was ‘Ord’some
Today, our travels went from being in the air to traversing land and water. We began the day with a trip to the Sandlewood Shop and Cafe. The day before, we flew over these farms. Sandlewood trees require host trees for nutrients and to speed up their maturing. We all enjoyed a lovely brunch and…
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Day 13 – The Bungle Bungles
What a day! The day started with an early morning pick-up so that we could join our small plane flight to the Bungle Bungles. This was my first small plane flight and Donna gets travel-sick so there was a degree of anxiety. The lovely Renee flew us safely and smoothly from Kununurra, across the Ord…
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Day 12 – From NT to WA – Kununurra here we come!
Low-key start to the day. Breakfast at a little coffee shop. I loved the wall art around the town. Drove to the airport and said good-bye to the car. Wayne and Mark went and filled in the paperwork for the wallaby incident. Thank goodness, they had elected to take out the $50 a day extra…
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Day 11 – Darwin via Litchfield
We left Katherine at 7:30am and headed to Florence Falls. The weather had become a little overcast and a bit cooler so I wasn’t sure about the swimming. Mark bought the 2nd worst coffee of the trip at the Adelaide River Roadhouse – little coffee and lots of milk. Just out from the falls, we…