Lake Argyle is a dam that was built in the early 1970s and flooded much of the old Argyle station. It is huge and has a volume of water equivalent to around 16 Sydney harbours. The water is used for irrigation downstream in the Ord river valley near Kununurra. When the lake flooded the old Argyle homestead was moved near the dam wall and made into a museum (which we visited).
We also saw the dam wall which is about 100m high and 300m wide. Pretty big but only small for a lake as huge as Lake Argyle.
The next day we went for a boat cruise on the lake with Granny and Poppy. It was amazing to see how big the lake is, in some parts it stretched over the horizon. In the middle of the lake we went for a swim off the boat and Poppy, Dad, Liv and Henry jumped off the roof of the boat. Henry and Liv jumped off the roof 6 times! Will jumped off the steps at the back of the boat.
They say the lake has about 30,000 freshwater crocodiles in it, but no saltwater crocodiles!
We also did some fish feeding (mostly catfish) and saw some wallaroos (called Euros) on one of the islands in the lake. They have tried to introduce Barramundi into the lake but they can't breed in the lake - all Barramundi are born male and many change to female during their lives but they can only do this in saltwater.
The Lake Argyle boat trip was unanimously voted the most fun experience of the holiday (so far)!
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