Bungle Bungles

Jack Here: After the five hour drive from Kununurra we arrived in The Bungle Bungles in the Purnululu National park. We arrived at the non generating campsite and set up and started up generator because the caravan had low batteries! The Bungle Bungles are big rock formations that are rounded and are black and orange stripes. White people didn't know about it until 20 years ago! The next day we set out and went to Picinnini Creek to a lookout over the Bungle Bungles then we went to a natural window and rested in the shade because it was very hot (45o). After that we went to Cathedral Gorge and at the top pool there were two Water Monitors. Water Monitors are lizards that can swim and are about two to three feet long! We dipped our feet in the water and had our lunch. We walked back to the car park and into air con in the car, phew! Back at the campsite we refilled the water bottles and had a snack then we went to Echidna Chasm and it was cool (in both ways) and the chasm was 200 metres deep! In some places it was only three feet wide. Then to completely exhaust ourselves we did Mini Palms and at the end it was a great pool with a cave at the end but it was dry. I couldn't go and explore the cave because you stood on a platform on the top of a big rock. Eventually we finished all the walks in one big day. Back at the caravan we had a bucket of cold water over us to cool us down. Then sle...Zzzzz.
On the way back to Kununurra we stopped off at Zebra Rock and had a milkshake and Kate bought an elephant that was made of stripey rock. In Kununurra we camped in Invanhoe and we had two families that we were friends with and it had a great pool. Once we were all in the pool playing piggy in the middle and it was great fun! The next night we had a barbecue at the Cassiday's and then we played hide and seek with Ethan, Anna and Jack(yes another Jack). After about ten rounds of hide and seek we knew every hiding place. Then we went inside Ethan's caravan and watched National Treasure. Then slee....Zzzz.
This is fruit growing territory and the mangoes are falling from the trees. Dad wants to get a job as a mango picker or packer.
When the camper was fixed AGAIN, we left Kununurra to go east to the Northern Territory. We had to change our clocks forward one and a half hours. We stopped in Timber Creek where volunteers go out and kill Cane Toads. It's called the great Toad Muster and the government of West Australia doesn't want the toads to spread over their border. The cane toads came from America and they are horrible and ugly. They want to kill the Cane Toads because they kill goanas, snakes and crocodiles because they are poisonous. We went up and asked if we could help but it was too dangerous for children because they go out at night and there are snakes and crocodiles. We spoke to a lady who had bent down to pick up a Cane Toad and had poked her eye on a stick – she had a big bandage on it. The muster was nearly finished and they had caught thousands of toads. They collect them in big plastic bags then they gas them. Then they count the number of male and females then put them to a disposal site.