Home Valley Station - 700,000 acres which is now part of Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia. It offers upmarket type accommodation and camping. Before arriving we cross the Pentacost River with the red cliffs of the Cockburn Ranges in the background. The river is low at this time of year so crossing is easy. Once you leave E Q you leave the bitumen behind, however we did stop for some roadworks, so looks like more road improvements are on the way. It was a short drive today to Home Valley. There are two camping areas at HV, one has pleasant grassed sites, near the pool and restaurant and the other is on the banks of the Pentacost River. As we needed to use our generator we had to go to the river camp area. It was very ... read more

Day 3 Another early start today. We hired a boat to check out Chamberlain Gorge and its 3km waterhole at 7am. Being early we had beautiful reflections of the rocky gorge walls in the water and the gorge almost to ourselves with only one other hire boat out. The boats have small electric motors so that as you go along there is almost no sound. At the end we tied up to a rock shelf and got out to check out some Aboriginal art R & E had seen on their last visit here. Bob wet his line as we made our way back but no fish, we actually saw some big Barra at the top end (in the no fishing zone).... read more

Hi Folks Well we have survived the infamous Gibb Road and are now in Derby. Due to the total lack of mobile coverage for last three weeks a lot of catching up to do. So I just thought I would let you know that we are safe and almost none the worst for wear. Both car, camper and us are sporting a decent coat of red dust. We had some bits fall off both car and camper but will tell all in later blogs. R& E have gone back to Kununarra to collect their caravan and we will meet up again in Broome. The road was everything I expected and worse! I don't want to see another corrugated road for a while, however the gorges and scenery are spectacular. So as soon as I have cleaned ... read more

Arrived at Lake Side Caravan Park, very busy got two unpowered sites, ok for us R&E will get moved to powered site tomorrow. Into town to stock up at Coles. Very quiet and most things closed (Sunday). Park is lovely nice grassy site and we are almost on edge of lake, which is very shallow with lots of water lilies and plenty of birdlife, and also some fresh water crocs we are told. Next day took the back road to Wyndham. Stopping off to look at Middle Springs, Black Rock Falls, the Old Telegraph Station ruins and the Parry Lagoons Nature Reserve and Marlgu Billabong. Walking into the Black Rock Falls we were treated to a special moment, as we approached the pool at the base of the falls a cloud of black and white butterflies ... read more

Decided this morning to backtrack to Jasper Gorge, which was where we were heading before deviating onto the Humbert Track. The drive into the Gorge was through lightly treed country hemmed in by rocky red escarpments. The waterholes are lined with Pandanus Palms, Paper Barks and access is not easy, after we set up camp a lady and her daughters from the local community came to fish. She assured us there were crocs in the water, they caught 4 turtles and one fish. Bob did his best but no luck. Found a lovely campsite on the side of the waterhole. Someone had built a lovely fireplace from river stones for us. We were treated to another fireworks display tonight, put on by some locals. Bob was up before first light to catch the sunrise on the ... read more