Thierings on Tour

Chris was off early to drop the car at the mechanic for 6.30am, whilst the girls and I had a lazy start to the day, with mama enjoying delicious coffee from the cafe onsite. 

The girls caught up on some homework and I had a couple of meetings (it’s always a relief when the meetings are in a good reception area!) and we packed up the van mostly. 

The girls also found another majestic boab tree at the campground.

Then we had to drop the car off at the Tyre place for a wheel alignment and so we browsed a few shops. The girls wanted to see the pink diamonds that are mined locally at Lake Argyle. I loved the Man Couch they had in the shop, I’m pretty sure I have a very similar photo of Chris from 11 years ago, just no little Scarly.

There was also a nice art gallery nearby where the girls literally spent an hour choosing a trinket box each with Aboriginal designs for their collection of rocks and shells. I loved so many of the paintings there and wished that we had space in the house back at home to buy some. 

We grabbed lunch and the car was finally ready. However when Chris hitched up the van and we started driving to Lake Argyle the car was pulling to the left so hard that Chris had to keep fighting it. He clearly wasn’t happy with the wheel alignment and so we had to turn around and drive back to Kununurra to get it fixed again. The mechanic took it for a test drive and claimed there was nothing wrong, invited Chris to have a look on the screen as he hooked it up and sure enough the machine showed that it was out by about 20%. So the bloke went to work sheepishly and we wasted another hour waiting for it to be fixed. Eurgh, Chris is completely losing faith in any mechanics and workshops he is encountering 😭

It was good to be back on the rod again…

We eventually made it to Lake Argyle and it was still as pretty as I remembered it to be. The pool, whilst freezing, makes for picture perfect memories. 

A quick drink at the bar seemed like a reasonable idea to finally enjoy the scenery around us and the girls had a great time dancing to live music. The musicians here finally knew and played Scarly’s request of The Traveller by Chris Stapleton, which finished the night off on a high!

Kms travelled – 73