Lake Argyle and the Bungles

After just under 4 weeks exploring Broome, Cape Leveque and the Gibb River road, we pressed on to Lake Argyle and the Bungle Bungles.

If you want a guide that covers literally everything you’d want to know about the Kimberley, you’ll find it here – the ultimate guide to the Kimberley.

In case you missed the other posts, you can see them here:

Broome and the trip up

The Gibb River Road part 1

The Gibb River Road part 2

4WD tracks at Lake Argyle — Lake Argyle; probably the most scenic place we visited

Lake Argyle resort — Lake Argyle Resort and Caravan Park

Lake Argyle dam wall — 19 times the water capacity of Sydney harbour is held up by one relatively small wall

Lake Argyle Pool — Lake Argyle Resort’s infinity pool. A class of its own!

Lake Argyle and the Ord River — Lake Argyle flowing into the Ord River

Argyle resort infinity pool — Living the dream

Lake Argyle Cruises — Lake Argyle boat tour with Matt

Lake Argyle boat cruise — More water than you can imagine. We travelled over 100km by boat over 6 hours

Lake Argyle river — One of the rivers feeding Lake Argyle

Silver cobbler 2 at Lake Argyle — The Silver Cobbler 2 – the boat to go on!

Lake Argyle reflections — You don’t see water this calm very often

Amazing reflections at Lake Argyle — At 50km/h its a sight to behold

Lake Argyle fish — Feeding some fish at Lake Argyle

Bird of prey — An amazing bird of prey

Swimming at Lake Argyle — Swimming in the lake as the sun sets; magic

Lake Argyle Sunset by boat — A perfect way to wind the day up

Freshwater crocodile Lake Argyle — There are around 25,000 freshwater crocodiles in Lake Argyle

Sunset tour at Lake Argyle — The sunsets here are unbelievable

Lake argyle sunset reflections — Perfect reflections; its pretty rare!

Sunset Boat tour Lake Argyle — Words don’t do this place justice

Boating on Lake Argyle — Paradise on a boat!

Argyle sunset — The last of the sun

Fishing at the floodway — Trying our luck fishing off the flood way

Lake Argyle floodway fishing — We caught a catfish and sooty grunter

Lake argyle helicopter — The helicopter tour at Lake Argyle

Lake Argyle Hydroelectric plant — Lake Argyle Hydroelectric power generation. This saves 60 million litres of diesel per year

Lake argyle colours — The sun transforms the rock here

4WDing Australia at the Bungles — Off to the Bungles

Broken D40 Navara — A slightly sick looking Navara at the Bungle Bungles

Walking through Echidna Chasm — Walking into the Echidna Chasm

Echidna Chasm — Staggering scenery, as per the Kimberley norm

Echidna Chasm Bungles — A short, rewarding walk

Bungles Echidna Chasm — It’s much bigger than I realised

Loving the Bungle Bungles — The bee hives, in all their beauty

Bungle Bungle lookout — There are some great lookouts here too

Enjoying the Bungles — Trying to capture the scenery

Bungles walk — My shorts blend in!

Bungle Bungle National Park — Well worth the drive in

Cathedral gorge — Cathedral Gorge

Bungle Bungle creek — There are way more Bee hives than I expected

Bungle helicopter tour — We splashed out on an 18 minute helicopter ride

Bungle Bungle helicopter — Which was a huge highlight of our trip

Bungles via helicopter — The view from above is unreal

Bungle Bungles from high — They might look small from here, but they aren’t!

Enjoying the Bungles — Nature at its best

The bungles from a helicopter — We live in an incredible country

Amazing colours at the Bungles — Our last sunset at the Bungles

Amazing sunset at Lake Argyle — Magic

Bungles in our 80 — The more we travel, the more we love our 4WD!

Bungles Corrugations — A couple of the minor corrugations on the way in

Sunset lookout near camp — Bungle Bungle lookout

After 5 weeks, it was a bit of a shock to head back to Perth. Nonetheless, that’s life, and we had a holiday that was so jammed full of amazing experiences. You can’t put a price on a holiday like that, and we now have memories that will last forever.