Travel memories .. The Grotto

We recently found our stash of photos hiding on K's laptop. There had been a bit of panic because we both thought we had backed all of these photos going back to before we bought the caravan onto a portable hard drive.  Once located a pleasant evening was spent reliving the wonders of our first 6 week expedition up the centre of Australia from Adelaide and then across to Northern WA and back down and over the Nullarbor to SA.

It is funny the things that stick in your mind. I remember the utter disgust on K's face when we ran out of water even though the second  tank was reading full, and discovered that the monitoring system was compromised by having one set of wires crushed against the chassis in an inaccessible place.  Repairs effected by K drilling through the floor of the van under a drawer, soldering a bypass and reconnecting.

I try not to remember the time I almost fell over a wallaby and joey who had taken refuge from a camper's dog under our van  and popped their heads up as I stepped out, sans glasses so I was effectively blind, dropping my coffee, and doing an elegant 180 over the head of the animals.

Friends we  made, sunrises and sunsets, wonders of creation ...... Our first real encounter with  indigenous culture at a corroboree in Derby. I nearly lost K to a lovely indigenous lady who was so impressed with his polite and helpful manner she was ready to take him back to camp.


We discovered some  pretty great photos that we have never done anything with so I have decided to revisit these memories every now and again.


Today's memory is 'The Grotto" a hidden wonder on the road from Kununurra to Wyndam in the Kimberly. We pulled the caravan and car off into a car park. A stone sign, a few bottle trees and over a hundred steps down into the earth and this is what you get to see.

(I was still sore from climbing up the steps at Kings Canyon and again at Edith Falls so it took a bit of persuading to get me out of the car and down, and of course up again...... Worth it? Yes indeed. )




 

One hundred steps down to the Grotto.
That is the path  on the left of the photo.

 

The Grotto in WA. Almost triangular in shape with
a water fall at the point. The water is clear and cold.
That's me shivering on the left. I had to have a swim.

Large monitor sunning on the rocks. Two of them
and they didn't even put their heads up at all.

Reflections on the water at the Grotto WA.
You can just make out the water monitors on the rocks.

On the way back up the steps of the Grotto.
How do things grow like this?

Bottle tree growing into the cracks of the walls of the Grotto WA
Very Kimberly sight

Ah!! The memories.

Cheers Sue

A Ferg on the Move