The turn off to Parry Creek Road is about 20kms from Wyndham, so after a few kilometres of bitumen we were back on the dirt again. Amongst the corrugations we hoped to find somewhere nice to camp, with a place to launch the tinnie and barra waiting to be caught - not too much to ask is it? Our wishes were met, well almost! We found a great camping spot on the side of the river with a spot to launch the tinnie, great tree for a swing and wood to be collected for a fire - only thing the Ord didn’t provide was Barra! The amount of wildlife along the Ord was amazing with hundreds of crocs, kangaroos and wallabies, lots of bird life and King Brown Snakes!! We set up the beach shelter for ... read more

Six hours of mud slides and corrugations later we pulled into El Questro with one very muddy car and van. El Questro is the tourist mecca of the Kimberley’s with small store, restaurants, art gallery as well as you basic campground. We were all exhausted after the long day in the car and looking forward to setting up and having a wash. It was so nice to have our first hot shower in over a week! We also enjoyed an icy cold drink at the bar, even though one Lemon Ruski was $9.00!! There are many gorge walks to go on in the surrounds of El Questro. We decided to hike into: • Zebedee Springs - A permanent thermal spring surrounded by palms and sheer cliff faces. This was a short 1.5km return walk to the ... read more

Silent Grove (Wednesday 4th - Thursday 5th June) We were very keen to get to Bell Gorge in the King Leopold Ranges for a long awaited swim. We set up camp at Silent Grove situated about 10km from the falls. Our camp site was beautiful with a scenic rock wall behind us, table and fire place - Luxury! After set up was complete we donned our bathers, packed the backpack and drove to the gorge walk starting point. It was then about a 2km walk over rocky terrain to the falls. The walk was truly worth it with a spectacular water fall and lots of rocky swimming pools. We had a great afternoon swimming and following the rock pools upstream. The view was amazing as well as the wildlife with lots of water monitors, frogs and ... read more

After a long day of corrugated roads and food stocking up in Broome we set out not really knowing where we would stay for the night. At about 5:30 we came across the Nillibubbica rest stop and decided that enough is enough for one day. As soon as we pulled into the rest stop the ever perceptive Ella yelled our ‘bucket wash’ her immediate, no shower, no electricity observation. There is nothing much to note about this place except that there was lots of red dirt, several cows mooing right behind our van and a very dodgy drop toilet with cockroaches scurrying all around it. Needless to say we made for a quick get away in the morning with more scenic campgrounds to come - we hope!! Our time on the west coast has come to ... read more

I was really looking forward to getting to Broome and checking out this famous Australian town. The layout of Broome is unusual with Cable Beach at one end and the town centre and City Beach at the other, with approximately 5km in between filled with resort upon resort. Broome’s housing and surrounds really remind me of Darwin, that cross between being in the bush and the tropics. Our site seeing tour of Broome included: • Japanese Cemetary - A tribute to many of the early settlers who were involved in Broome’s pearling history. Amazing to see this tribute to Japanese pearlers - unfortunately unable to read any headstones! • Gantheaume Point - The home prehistoric dinosaur footprints. A must see for Ella who is fascinated by dinosaurs and will sit and watch the doco ‘Walking with ... read more