Week 3 Lake Argyle

Day 24 - Week 3 Lake Argyle

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Life continues. We get stronger! Still loving the life, and loving our days off (today) even more :) Things seem to be getting into a bit more of a routine. This last week I have been training in the shop/reception. Loads of fun, chaotically busy at times, talk about being a jack of all trades. Really looking forward to the day I can answer all the questions customers ask, without having to find another staff member to ask them.

Chauffeur is being renamed whilst we live here, as he is hardly driving (only once a week when we head into Kununurra for supplies). Two to three times a week he has been on garbage collections. Driving around in the ute and emptying all the wheelies bins (we have lots) the ute gets stacked high. Anyway, he is constantly finding stuff to bring home. The first week it was a camping chair, with broken arm. It is now fixed and is a great addition to the camping kitchen near us. Last week it was a little bench, now fixed it is a very useful little table in our own camping kitchen. Yesterday he acquired another chair (this time given to our neighbour whose chair had seen better days), and there are always magazines etc. so he is now called BB Harrison (bower bird). Speaking of which, there are hundreds of them living here. Such pesky things, always stealing, I have to cover the kitchen area when we are working as they jump in. They stole my dried mango fruit leather! There is a fascinating nest in between 2 cabins, it has an array of all the goodies they have 'acquired' laying on the ground in front of the nest -see photo.

Managed to download Michael Morcombe's Australian Book of Birds (ipad app) it is fantastic. The birds here are incredible. Yesterday we saw a Gouldian Finch, they are a very rare and endangered species. We walked out on to the bluff in front of the CP and then over to the old Durrack Homestead. It has been moved from its original site as that is now under the lake. Quite an amazing family.

We had a bush fire a few days ago. Accidentally started from a cigarette, the poor man was absolutely devastated, one of those genuine accidents, where he had done all the right things, but one spark escaped! Anyway, it went up the hillside, and we had quite a show all night. It is on its way to Halls Creek now! (see photo of dam, with blackened hill behind).

Our brakes (shoes/pads) arrived last week and BB manged to get them installed on Sunday Ravi when he finished early, along with the help of Little Dave, one of our wonderful neighbors. So we will be driving into town today without haring around the corners!!!speaking of haring, have heard there is a Hash House Harriers in town, might have to check it out, depending on when they run, and how serious they are :)

Well I thing that is most fond this week's news, stay tuned for next week' installment.

	Dam Wall [Map]		From Bluff to CP [Map]
	Bush Fired Dam Wall [Map]		Otherside of Durrack Homestead [Map]
	Pannekin Bay [Map]		Rock Window [Map]
	Infinity Pool [Map]		Bower Bird Nest [Map]

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