We drove towards Wyndham. It was very smoky because it is the traditional "burning off" season. On the way we went into The Grotto. A creek has washed away all the top layers of earth leaving a small, very colourful, canyon. We walked down the narrow steps built around the canyon wall. There are no safety rails! At the bottom we spent a considerable amount of time photographing a family of water monitors, a family of whistling kites, and red dragon flies.
As we were leaving Wyndam we noticed a lot of smoke coming from the back of some houses. I thought that they were doing the usual burn off but we noticed a policeman scurrying around so we stopped to investigate. Apparently, after arriving home a lady had parked her car on an area of long dry grass and the hot exhaust had caused it it catch alight. The fire was spreading into the long grass in the neighbour's back yard. No one was at-home in that house but a car was parked in the long grass in the yard. Several other motorists stopped. They grabbed buckets out of their camper vans to carry water, but no one could find a tap so they grabbed green branches from trees to beat out the flames. All the men helped the policeman push the car into a cleared area, and finally someone found a hose and got some water running. When it was under control we set off back to Kununurra.
On the way home we side tracked to view the bird life and the boabs at Parry's lagoon.
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