The Zebbie's Big Adventure

 We returned to Kununurra to spend a good 5 days relaxing and exploring the area. We stayed at the Ivanhoe Tourist Park. The kids were very excited to see Harriet and Frankie's van as soon as we drove in. We also managed to catch up with Elsie and Zara's kindergarten teacher, Allison here in Kununurra. She is also travelling around Australia with her husband and her brother, sister-in-law and 2 nephews. It was so much fun to see Allison at the complete opposite corner of the country, the stars definitely aligned today. We visited Allison's caravan park, had a play on the playground with Aussie the kinder mascot, and took a photo under a big Boab tree. As soon as we were back in town Saul started ringing around to find somebody to check the car. Eventually he got it checked and found that we had smashed the rear diff sensor on a rock when we were driving the King River River Road. Thankfully it's not something that needs to be fixed urgently, so S...

 This will be a shorter blog than usual because unfortunately I wrote a nice long post and then just as I was about to save it, the app on my phone crashed and I lost the whole thing!! So very frustrating. We arrived at Kununurra which is a little oasis caused by the daming of the Ord River. We had a day to reset and restock before heading north for a few days.We drove across the Ivanhoe crossing just to have a look at how deep it is because in a few days we will take the van across. We spent Saturday morning at the local market. Kylie bought some nice baggy pants to wear in the hot weather but to keep the mozzies away. Elsie thought it was a dress up costume. We bought some honeycomb, mango smoothies, and stocked up with local fruit and veg. Welcome to the tropics.  We spent the afternoon at the local footy grand final between the Ord River Magpies and the Halls Creek Hawks. The Magpies won by 2 points but it was challenged beca...