Kununurra to Wilgena Station part 1

I am finally updating this from the last couple of months as I have been much too lax with the blog. I will tell you what has happened since we left out jobs at the Sandalwood plantation in Kununurra in Western Australia to the present where we have just started jobs on a sheep farm on Wilgena Station in South Australia.

We decided to pack up and leave Kununurra on the spur of the moment, just decided one day and told work we would not be back tomorrow and went. That’s the beauty of having a casual job doing farmwork here with no responsibility. We didn’t even feel guilty as they had too many staff at that time anyway.
It felt great to be on the road again although it was a shame to say goodbye to our friends who were a little surprised to hear of our imminent departure.
The plan was to surprise our friend Veronica who was leaving Australia soon and we wouldn’t have seen her had we stayed a few more days in Kununurra.
The highlight of the 850 kilometres was Lynchfield National Park not too far from Darwin. The stunning waterfalls and swimming holes in the gorges were fantastic after a month on the farming plains fed by Lake Argyle. Lovely and cool in the hot humid weather also!
We arrived in Darwin after only a day and a half of driving (including the time spent at Lynchfield) and met our friends Gary and Naz whom I knew from Perth and had travelled with to Exmouth. Veronica was surprised by out arrival when we finally found her, although I had given here a inkling by not realising how well connected the Estonian community was when I wrote that I was leaving on Facebook, thinking that as Veronica didn’t have me as a friend on the site she wouldn’t know about it.
Darwin is a nice city, being more cultured that I had otherwise experienced so far in Australia, the major downside being the humidity which wasn’t even bad when we were there but plenty hot and sticky for us. The best part was the Mindil Beach sunset market. It had plenty of hippie clothes, loads of food from lots of different countries (we went to the Australian stand to try crocodile and possum!) and good music.