On my ‘do-nothing-day’ here in the warm climate of Broome, I thought I would post a brief note about our three week experience driving between Perth and Broome. You can choose to use this information as you wish, acknowledging that what suits some people, how people wish to travel, do,…
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There can be the calm before the storm. In our case, there is the ‘do-next-to-nothing’ day before we launch back into our next adventure. That includes tomorrow’s trip to the Horizontal Falls, it being in a very remote part of the Kimberley only accessible by air or sea. We met…
Now we are in-between destinations and tours, just chilling, without vehicle, in the lovely Cable Beach area of Broome. Is there a better place to have an early morning walk than along the beautiful and extensive Cable Beach? So much room to walk, run, or even give the thoroughbreds some…
There we were, enjoying our three course meal in the wilderness camp in the Kimberley. No mobile phone, no Internet, no TV. Just fun conversations and social interaction. Quite pleasant really. So logically, the topic shifted to wildlife. Frogs actually. Green tree frogs, to be precise. Our adjacent dinner companion…
Some reflections of this recent wonderful trip in the Kimberley, in far north Western Australia. My thoughts may not necessarily be highly ordered, maybe not always coherent but provided to share with readers the joyfulness, the grandeur and the privilege of experiencing this great wilderness, admittedly at a time when…
Today was an easy 4.5 hour drive from Fitzroy Crossing to Broome, marking the end of our Gibb River Road trip. We also had to return our 4WD hire vehicle, it being a new Mitsubishi Pajero which performed very impressively and reliably for us, on and off road. We are…
Leaving early from Purnululu National Park, we succeeded at avoiding the trafffic that can otherwise impede your progress and vision on this most corrugated and challenging road. Sixty five km and 105 minutes later, we were on the bitumen and pleased we had now survived our off-road adventure without any…
Three walks today after an early start. In the north, the wonderous Echidna Gorge, the challenging and mighty Mini Palms Gorge, and the scenic Homestead Valley. Exhaustion and sore feet thereafter.
Left Kununurra to explore the southern end of the Bungle Bungles, famous for the beehive like domes and the Cathedral Gorge. However, first there is the very heavily corrugated and tricky 55km 4WD track to negotiate beyond the bitumen. That was fun and time consuming too. This is Molly Springs…
Back to Lake Argyle, this time to stay the night and complete a most pleasant sunset cruise and swim on this vast and impressive lake. Lake Argyle is quite close to Kununurra, on the road to Darwin, to the east, some 70km or so. After spending the morning in and…