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Published: June 20th 2009
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Ellenbrae Station
Who needs a door on the toilet and shower anyway! The shower is beautifully lit up in the sun. Still continuing along the Gibb River Road, there have been many other lovely places we’ve scrambled over rocks in the heat for hours, to see. The swimming pools have clear cool water fed by waterfalls that are all different - Manning, Adcock, Galvin and Barnett Gorges.
At Ellenbrae we found a very unique homestead camp ground with heaps of character, but girls, you’d love the facilities! There is a roofed area for a BBQ and a donkey (for the city slickers, that’s to heat water for the shower) where you have to light the fire yourself. It has character plus, but the one toilet and one shower open straight off this area and both only have head high walls and a shadecloth curtain for privacy! Needless to say you have to time your visits carefully and have someone act as lookout. The homestead grounds are like an oasis.
Ahh...El Questro.
It's name is not so good but this place is for us. It caters for the very rich to the humble camper and it’s done so well. We’ve been very tinny along the way so we were able to get one of the 25 much sought-after bush campsites spread
Ellenbrae Station
The donkey for heating water for your shower. along an 8 km stretch of a gurgling stream…it was us and the bush.
We decided to do a tour of Explosion Gorge and it was so much fun. Imagine us sitting in the back of an open safari type 4x4 and tearing along a boulder track, so rough that we hung on tightly so we wouldn’t be bounced out of it. It was great fun.
The track was one lane wide with creeks to cross, rock ledges to climb over and an awfully long drop on one side in many places. We had to creep down some slopes, idling in low range 4 wheel drive, stepping over the rocks. There’s no way you would take your own vehicle along that track… and that was just getting there!
There were only 6 other people with us so we loaded on to a small boat and glided up the gorge, a beautiful sight in the afternoon sun. Our guide was one of those people that is a natural people person and gave us a great time.
Next we drove up to a lookout for sunset and drank bottles of champagne and beer and ate cheeses and other
Driving to Explosion Gorge
The roads aren't toooo bad nibbles until dark …we were all very merry. Everyone got on well and we had so much fun (oh, and the view was beautiful too). Somehow these tours seem to all end with champagne but, hey, I’m not complaining. The champagne made those steep drops not nearly so scary on the way home.
We saw other fascinating things there as well but our last day finished it off well with two of the most beautiful places.
Zebedee Springs are a series of many small thermal rock pools set amongst palms and ferns with warm water cascading from one to the next along the stream. The water is so clear and nature landscaped that area to perfection.
Emma Falls had two waterfalls dropping from way up high down to a rock pool. I can’t describe how beautiful it is so I won’t even try.
After two weeks we have fallen in love with the isolation of The Kimberley and you MUST come and see it yourself before it loses it’s adventure status. Once the road is sealed it will be wall to wall tourists with motorhomes, whereas now it’s limited to those that are prepared to rough
Explosion Gorge
No matter how many rock walls we see, every one is different and fascinating. it a bit. We’re planning our next trip here and we’ll be doing a few of the more remote tracks before they’re not remote.
Our Kimberley leg of the holiday is over now so it’s up to Darwin and Kakadu.
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Julie
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Adcock Gorge
The water is beautiful green there and I am as green with envoy!! Keep sending the blogs, there are fabulous. You should be a writer.