Arriving in WA

Tea and Scones at Zebra Rock

It has taken us 15 weeks to get here but we have now crossed the WA boarder. Our first discovery for this state was the amazing and unique Zebra Rock. This is a natural rock only found in this area and it looks just like Zebra print but a beautiful pinks instead (my favourite colour). We learnt about the different types and the mining of it and then enjoyed coffee and scones. The girls have bought some raw zebra rock to make their own necklaces.

Zebra Rock showroom

Spillway creek

We then visited the Argyle Dam. After a massive wet season up here the Dam was 190 percent capacity. Seeing raging torent of water coming thru the spillway was amazing and with already 4 months since the last rains it had slowed down tremendously, it would have been such a scary sight to see at the begining of the dry.
As we crossed the bridge over spillway creek we found a colony of freshwater crocodiles finding refuge in a side drain away from the gushing waters. Most of them disappeared into the water when we got closer, but we did manage to get a photo of two not so shy ones.
Arglye Dam is just huge and having a look from the lookout we could only see just a glimpse of the size. But great to see, I just can't believe the town uses bore water, the water from Arglye dam is used for irrigation only.

Freshwater crocodiles sunning themselves

Not so shy freshies

Lake Argyle

We found a great spot to camp along the Lake Argyle Road. We sat around the fire at night and could hear the running waters of spillway creek in the distance. It was just like camping on the beach listening to the crashing waves at night.

Our camp