Kunawarritju Community-CSR

That happened to us in 06 at Punmu, which lies west of Kunawarritji. The community was abandoned. All gone on Sorry Business. Only about 20 dogs left in the place and they saw us off!! As a result we were not able to get to places further afield as we needed to replenish our fuel supplies there.

Kunawarritji though, is a pretty established community, so it is strange if this is true.

When we travelled west along the Gary Junction Road late July, a group travelling the other way told us that Kunawarritju Community was closed and had no fuel.

We had plenty of fuel, but when we got there, a new employee was working the pumps, and she was only too happy to sell us fuel even though it was outside their normal opening hours.

A few weeks later, we were back on the Canning and they ran out of fuel for about 3 days.

Nothing unusual in the remote areas. Just something you have to work around, and don't believe everything you're told.

We travelled the CSR in the first two weeks of August. We stopped at Kunawarritju community and found fuel without problems. The lady said that they had trouble with their fuel supplies but that was being overcome. She was the contractor who set up the shop about four years earlier but succeeding contractors had allowed the place to fall badly into disrepair. She had been asked to fill in until the new contractor commenced some weeks later. Hopefully it will return to the advertised reliability.

Garry

We visited Kunawarritju in mid-Aust 2007. No problems with fuel ($2.80 ltr) and the small shop was operating. Also a $2 shower was available.