Lake Argyle 28th July 2014

We booked into the very busy lake Argyle caravan park and also booked into the sunset cruise with Greg the owner operator and prepared for the 2:30 pm cruise on the lake. Lake Argyle is Australia's largest waterway and is classed as an inland sea covering 1000 square kilometres or around 5 times the water of Sydney harbour. According to our Greg our cruise skipper there are around 25000 fresh water crocodiles in the lake and during the cruise we saw numerous although that didn't deter the ladies from having a swim in the lake. The cruise was very enjoyable and the host was very experienced and knowledgable and we all really enjoyed the afternoon on the lake. We arrived back at the caravan park around 6:30 just in time for happy hour.

The lake argyle dam is made of natural rock and clay from the area and at the base is 300 metres wide and really a marvel of engineering back in 1971. The length of the lake from end to end is 120 kilometres.

One of the best features of the caravan park is the infinity pool which is bloody cold but really refreshing so we all had a swim and a refresh in there. 

Andy and Warren went fishing early the next morning, Shelley and myself went for a early morning swim, oh my goodness was like jumping into a bucket of ice water.Andy and Warren arrived back and we packed up and drove the motorhomes down to the spillway where we had a fish for a while without any luck but saw a large salt water crocodile. The hydro power station has three turbines with only two running while we were there but the force of the water coming out of the turbines was terrifying to say the least.