Kununurra and the Bungle Bungles

During our holiday we flew down to the Bungle Bungles from Kununurra using the delightfully named Alligator Airways. Our group was transported in two planes which departed one after the other. The other group was in a newer, slightly faster, plane which overtook us on the way south. I took this photo as that plane passed us. Just moments earlier we had waved to each other as the planes drew level. At this point we are flying over Lake Argyle, created from damming the Ord River and providing a body of water eighteen times the size of Sydney Harbour.


Once at the Bungle Bungles, we hiked to Cathedral Gorge with its magnificent rock overhang. We lunched there before undertaking the return hike.


The return flight to Kununurra was largely uneventful until we approached the airport and found it obscured by smoke. We learned later that vandals had set off fires in the adjoining fields and our pilot decided to do a circle of the airport and land from the opposite end where visibility was better. The township of Kununurra is seen in the middle background of my photo on the other side of the Ord River and the airport is in the left foreground.