We are now time wise, half way through this big adventure.🥲. Time certainly has flown while we have been having fun. Today was a quiet day, Matt and I ventured out to the Durack Homestead museum and read up about the Durack family and the history of the ideas behind the dam and the construction of the Lake Arygle Dam. We took 0 photos I just realised so you’ll have to deal with a publicity shot
The homestead was relocated before the dam filled up with water, and stone by stone was reconstructed and made back into the house and became the museum in the late 1970’s. It was all very interesting. There was a video about the construction of the dam, which included footage of how they used explosives to get rock used to build the dam wall, and the fuse was lit by a cigarette- as you did back in the day in the early 1970’s!
After our history lesson, Matt worked on some maintenance and preparation of Bridget for our upcoming adventure on the Gibb River Road, no photos of that either. Just imagine a bloke in overalls rolling around in the dirt ,getting dirt in his eyes, whilst also simultaneously getting grease everywhere except where it’s supposed to go, cause all the greasing points are disguised in dirt… while I baked my famous triple chocolate brownies for the group. A chilled afternoon, we rested and chatted with a few of our kids before heading off to the sunset viewing area with most of the others staying at the caravan park. We enjoyed another spectacular and picturesque sunset over Lake Argyle, with all the colours of the rock changing as the sun lowered in the sky. The water was glass like, as was the infinity pool. Another enjoyable evening of chatting and laughing with our friends. We head to Kununurra tomorrow.
