Kununurra

When the sun goes down the toads come out and children in caravan parks all over the top end grab their nets and buckets and go toad catching. It was a slow night but S and the other caravan park kids manager to collect 18 toads. I'm not sure what happens to them and I didn't ask.
The caravan park we stayed at in Kununurra was great (Discovery, Big4), right on the lake and had a freshwater croc called George who came to visit every afternoon. Monday night was Beef and Barra night. There must have been more than 70 people down by the lake in their camp chairs. It cost a $10 donation to Careflight. The Barra was amazing and there was heaps of salad to go with it.

We visited the Hoochery for afternoon tea and to sample the rum.

I visited an Aboriginal arts centre where there were some fantastic paintings and carved boab nuts. I bought a painting of a long necked tortoises, like the ones you see swimming with the crocs in the lake.

We drove down to Lake Argyle and drove across the impressive dam wall. The Ord River was dammed in the late 1960s to irrigate the plains north of Kununurra and Lake Argyle was the result. From the lookout we could only see the northern end of the lake. It is massive, in parts you can be more than 5 miles from the shore and therefore the open ocean laws apply for boats. We didn't have time for a cruise.