We went for a walk first up today to see the Ord River dam wall. Lake Argyle is held in by the dam wall and holds 18 times the water that is in the Sydney harbour! It is Australia largest expanse of fresh water. There are three big pipes that rush the water out for the Ord River down stream and for the power plant there. The water comes out and turns the turbines to make power. The water is also used for irrigation farming. We then walked to the Durack Homestead. The building was relocated stone by stone from its original site which is now 18 metres under water along with saddles still hanging on fences and other things they didn’t have time to take away. They ran out of time because they thought the lake would take 8 years to fill but it only took 2 years. The homestead was very interesting and showed a lot of pictures and things from the home when it was still used. We walked back and had a swim in the infinity pool. It was lovely and refreshing. We got dry and had lunch before going to get on the bus to take us to a boat for a sunset cruise. We learnt lots about the lake and even got to have a swim in Lake Argyle. The adults had beer and wine while they were swimming! They just threw the cans of beer in and I thought that when someone didn’t catch it they would just sink but they floated back up again! We had a nice swim, the water was even warmer than the infinity pool.

I was lucky enough to have a drive of the boat!

Tess