Day 21. Lake Argyle to Mabel Downs. By Caroline.

We left Lake Argyle this morning and came into Kununurra have a look at some Argyle Diamonds. The lady in the shop gave each of the kids a " pink diamond " ( blue for Bill ) which they were pretty excited about. They showed Danny, who told the lady that they weren't quite as sparkly as he'd expected. She admitted then, that they were only plastic, and they generally don't just give away the pink diamonds!  

She was more than happy for us to try anything on, even though she knew that we probably weren't going to buy anything.  Prices on display ranged from $1500 to $375,000, so I came away empty handed. ( except for the 5 plastic diamonds) 

We then took off to the Great Northern Highway, and starting heading East.

Not much happened for the rest of the day.  We arrived at Mabel  Downs, where we are staying tonight, before we leave the float here and take the 4wd track into the bungle bungles tomorrow. 

The kids are showered ( some of them) the sun is setting and tea is on.  Emmy and Addy are pretty proud of themselves for showering by themselves.  Emmy decided that it was too hard to unknot her hair tie before she washed her hair, so she just washed around it.  You can imagine the birds nest that I had to deal with!!

 

Our camp site tonight is really just dirt and rocks, but the kids are happy.

 

The showers here are pretty cool. They are just a tin shed with no roof, so you literally shower under the stars, and the stars here are amazing.  The only downside is that you have to share the showers with the cane toads. 

El Questro has the same sort of set up, but these ones are much bigger and more remote, and there isn't a line up.

That's all for today.  Goodnight.