Kununurra - Sandalwood & Distillary

Today we went to the Sandalwood factory, it is amazing the amount of product that is made from it, currently it is the biggest export product in the area, when we where driving along we couldn't work out what the rows of trees where along the side of the road intermingled with plenty of dead trees. We found out that they where Sandalwood plantations and the dead trees are the original host trees that the Sandalwood is attached to and finally kill as they grow. We then went on to the Rum  Distillary, we did some sampling but it is not our cup of tea. We then had a drive out to the Diversion dam which was built to divert the Ord River whilst the Lake Argyle dam was being built.