Blogs from Kimberleys, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 4

This is the big trip across the Gibb River Road. We had a full tank of petrol, the fridge was overflowing with meat (much of it vacuum packed to keep longer), and every nook and cranny in the car was full of vegetables, fruit and other food items. Our first stop was El Questro, a five star outback resort, but we were down at the camp site. But what a camp site we had - a private remote site on the Pentecost River bank. We walked into and swam in the El Questro and Moonshine gorges and wallowed in the warm Zebedee Springs before taking a boat trip on the Chamberlain Gorge. The day was rounded off with a glass of champagne on the return boat trip. The scenery in El Questro was beautiful with orange ... read more

When we crossed the border from NT into WA we had to put our clock back 1½ hours. This meant that we hadn’t even finished lunch yet, but we had already had it. The time changed from 3.30pm back to 2pm. Wyndham had a giant crocodile sitting outside the post office on some soft grass. Dad took my photo by it, and the croc was smiling. At the caravan park where we stayed there was a Bush Donkey that lived there. It came around Brekkie and Dinner Times for veggies and bread and whatever he could get. I reckon he was cute. I had a plane flight over the Bungle Bungles at 6am in the morning from Kununurra. It took over 2 hours to get to the Bungle Bungles and back. We also flew over the ... read more