9th June 2014 Lake Argyle

Today was all about doing some of the local walks.
First was he trail that was opposite the caravan park around the top of the range that over looked the lake, dam wall and ord river.
Then onto Durak Homestead museum.
This was a very interesting place to visit, with lots of information on the Durak family and the Kimberly.
There was a film running there thst you vould watch, it was the making of Argyle Dam, it was in the 1970s, the difference both Merv and I was laughing at the difference compared to now with the likes of health and safety, most of the guys got around in only stubbie shorts, boots that were not steel capped, not a hard hat to be seen and no protection cages or cabs on the machines.
One of the funniest things was they were showing one of the big blasts that was needed to get the rock, when the charges were in place a guy bent down and lit the fuse with his cigarette, and when one looks at the achievement it makes one wonder about what people are made do today, probably take twice as long so no one gets sunburned.
These two areas were about 6 kms so then it was lunch time before we headed out again.
We headed back down the river that we had gone fishing in but this time we didn't take fishing gear, it was cameras, we were hoping to see the crocodile on the bank.
This time we wore long pants so we could walk through the grass without getting scratched and a bit safer if snakes are about.
We ended up walking down past were we had fished, we saw 6 slide marks on a lovely sandy bank, plenty of snake tracks but it wasn't till we were coming back that we saw s crocodile on a rock and one swimming in the water.
On the way back to camp we stoppef off at a look out we found out about, it was up a very rough 4wd track, it was lookout over Lake Argyle,  pannikan bay, what a veiw, worth the drive up.