Blogs from Gibb River Road, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 4

Made an early start and were on the road by 8:30am, heading back to the Imintji aboriginal store to try & fix the fridge. Luckily they had exactly the required fuses we needed and Grant replaced in the battery so fridge now back in working order. As it was only down overnight most of our food seems fine which is good. Couldn't resist some real coffee either seeing as we were there - so a flat white & a cappucino also went down very well. Back on the road we were headed for the turn off for Windjana Gorge & Tunnel Creek National Parks. The GRR headed over the King Leopold Ranges which made a nice change as there were a couple of good lookouts (middle section of the road had been quite flat with just ... read more

31st July - 11th August Once again with acknowledgment of input both of text and photos from Kerry and Steve Waking early with the symphony of birds in the camp grounds Kerry and Judy walked, we showered washed clothes and had decamped soon after 8am, much earlier than planned. This gave us time to replenish supplies in Coles before we returned and Steve hitched up the camper trailer while the girls collected the washing all before check out time. We later found that Kerry had left some of her washing as other people had put theirs around hers and she missed a row of washing. Our lunch stop was at the Emma Gorge picnic area. Nearby we also purchased our Wilderness passes which enabled us to be on the El Questro property for the next 7 ... read more

El Questro is famous for its ***** star resort where all the rich go and pay around $3,000 a night but on the other side we have the camping grounds where all us average people go. Here you are surounded with gorges, hot springs, waterfalls and fishing, but also chopper rides as well. We stayed here also for 3 nights (prob 1 too many) and got to see everything we wanted, they had a choice of the camp ground which was central or a private site which was about 2km away from main area and your site was about 1/4 acre with a running water stream through it so we chose the private site. Once we got there we unpacked, had lunch and went for a swim then Axel finally got to go for a ride ... read more

We stayed here for 2 nights which were for free so we were pretty happy (nobody asked for any money) this was also during a very hot weekend of 37* so camping right next to water and not being able to swim in it cause of the crocs was doing our heads in!!! so we were very happy to move on to another where we could swim!!! There was 1 Gorge where we could'nt swim as it was Croc terratory and another called Tunnel Gorge where we had to use torches to go through and have a paddle at the end.... read more

We stayed at our next stop for 1 night and packed up early the next day and went to Bell Gorge. We had been told alot of stories about this 1 being Great!!! so we had high expectations when on our treck down there. It was about 45 min walk through rocky bushland and alot of rock climbing There was no dissapointment what so ever once we arrived!!!! OMG it was AWESOME!!!!! fresh water is always the best swimming water. As soon as we arrived at the water hole we all jumped in as the walk there took it out of us, we would have stayed there for about 4 hours and only left because the sun was going down. There were about 1/2 dozen locals that were jumping off the 20mtr cliff face and clinbing ... read more