Up before sunrise again with the birds & flying foxes squabbling as they came home to roost, then eating breakfast watching the sun rise on Kununurra Lake.  We were told that a 3.5 metre long saltwater crocodile was pulled out of the lake about 2 months ago.  Food for thought.  We went for an early morning shop to refuel & top up the groceries at Coles, then packing, cleaning & dumping waste.

Today’s journey was a short one to Parry Creek, about 75km towards Wyndham & in the Parry Lagoon Nature Reserve.  The dirt road was in good condition with only one interesting water crossing.  We set up camp then I had to find out why the battery charger wasn’t working when we were connected to 240v power.  After a bit of searching I found that an electrical connection had vibrated apart, then I had to work out how to fix it.  After a couple of hours I had jury rigged a system that should be fairly robust, importantly, it works & we are now charging when plugged into as 240v.  The temperature was 35C during this little exercise & the sweat was pouring off me, while the girls & John went for a swim in the swimming pool where a big goanna was sunning itself.  The  lagoon is beautiful but it has crocodiles we were advised against a swim in there (last week they pulled out a 4 & ½ metre crocodile).

Next we visited Marlgu Billabong, a RAMSAR wetland & spent the late afternoon there as the sun went down.  The lagoon is alive with all different types of waterbird species & crocodiles you can only walk on a board walk we spent a couple of very enjoyable hours in the bird hide.  I counted more than 20 Brolgas, lots of magpie geese, & whistling ducks, plus 3 nankeen herons.  The sunset over the lagoon was also very special as the water lilies all went to sleep.  We didn’t bring the TV with us & we haven’t missed it yet, we watch sunsets instead.

No time for cheese & bikkies as it was dark by the time we got back, so Tereza whipped up a magnificent veal schnitzel dinner that we washed down with another nice red.