Our caravan and Nissan 4WD are available to any overseas person who wants to do a house exchange during 2008. Susan and I want to go to England, Ireland and Scotland next year and are offering our van and Nissan 4WD as an exchange residence for a house and vehicle in these regions. We will take our van to any destination in Australia, set it up in a van park and pay the fees for the expected duration of the exchange, and leave the Nissan for transport. This is the outfit on the road in North Queensland.Lovebirds, Susan and Ted in the Boudoir.
Kitchen area
Ensuite
Here we are set up in Darwin during the wet season in 2007. We have a complete annex but have not needed to use it to date.

Now if you're Irish, English or Scot, what the hell is holding you up? Give us a ring and let's get it organised. You anywhere in Aus. for several months between May and September, us over there. You can do it!!!!

It's been Fish, fish and more fishing since returning to Kununurra. My good fishing mate Francis Bright "did me again" on a trip up the Cambridge gulf. Get a load of this 86 cm. Barra he got on a trolled Gold Bomber. We caught 2 other baras, but they were throw away babies.

Here's a shot of my biggest fish for the day, a 5 kilo Queenfish. We kept him for neighbours who enjoy eating them as a curry.
My first Mulloway. This is a baby. They need to be 70 cms before you can keep them. This is a 58 cm or there abouts. Sent back home to Mum.
I estimate that we caught over 60 fish for the day but this is the catch brought home. 8 javelin fish (Grunter) Queenfish, Barra, Cod on lower left, Mangrove Jack and small Fingermark.
When day is done you head for home. This is the boat ramp at Wyndham as we got back. Oh well, some one has to be here I s'pose. Another day another fishing trip. This is a shot of Lindsay Nebel as we head home at Tanamar. This is 75 klms noth of Kununurra. This was less successful trip. We left at 6 am got home 9 pm. No keepers but caught a few 60 cm Mulloway (below the limit), sharks and catfish. I dropped a small barra on a lure but it was a quiet day. We had a great day in spite of the non cooperative table fish.

Our final stay on the way back to Kununurra was at Home Valley Station Bush Camp. This is on the Pentecost River. ( El Questro Station is directly across the river.) We spent three nights here while I fished the river. No success here though. But, the scenery, have a look at this. The Cockburn Ranges were in full view from our campsite. (The shot below taken from the tent door.) Saltwater crocs sunning themselves on the muddy banks. A Dutch film crew were filming their reality show "Outback Luke".

This is one of three crocs on the bank this day. (250 metres from our camp site) Probably a 10 footer. Needles to say, both the sunrises and sunsets were spectacular. Below is a sunrise over the Cockburn Ranges. Wyndham is over the range to the left hand side about 50 klms away.

Finally, the Gibb River Road was not the Horror Stretch that we had envisaged, it was very good. More bitumen is being laid each year and the road is being upgraded each year. I'd guess that out of the 670 klms stretch 90 is now bitumen. It is not remote at any stage with dozens of vehicles passing you each day. Highest fuel cost $2.28 a litre.

Lennard River Gorge, our first stop on the Gibb River Road. While not very accessible and a two klm walk it is worth the effort. The following is a shot of "Queen Victoria's Head" on the approach to the pass through the Napier Ranges. Look closely at the rock structure on the right, there she is, well named.

Bell's Gorge was pleasant. There is a 10 kilometre drive from the camp ground at Silent Grove and a one kilometre walk to get to the falls. I had a bit of a problem here when I slipped crossing the creek above the falls to get better photographs. While I was in no real danger, the 20 or 30 other visitors there at the time either had a good laugh or were concerned for my safety. My walking boots, removed to cross over were recovered from the pool in the background. Result-Damaged ego, soaked Ted.

Dimond Gorge on Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary. This stay was very interesting. The Station is now owned by a Wildlife Trust and is destocking to allow the land to return to its natural state. It is a "Must see" destination for bird watchers. It has two beautiful gorges, Dimond Gorge pictured below and Sir John Gorge, as well as several good waterholes for swimming. While this gorge is not that accessible down river on foot, there are canoes for hire that allow you to escape down river for several kilometres. Cop this sunset. We stopped for this one on the way back from Sir john Gorge.
The Station also has plenty of the spectacular escarpment ranges as a back drop while driving around.
The restaurant is in a rustic style with pleasant meals and great company.