Blogs from Gibb River Road, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 5

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 ... read more

BROOME / DARWIN und Gibb River Road through The Kimberleys Den Nagel ausm Hinterrad entfernt, endllich..., ab aufn highway Richtung Derby. Alles Richtung Osten geradeaus und nochmals geradeaus. Ist allerdings nicht so weit nach Derby, nur ca. 300 km. Wir haben uns entschlossen nicht nach Derby selber zu fahren, denn das ist nicht wirklich etwas Interessantes. Ist ne Hafenstadt wie Port Headland aber nur nochmals kleiner. Somit sind wir ca. 10 km vor der Stadt rechts auf die Gibb River Road abgebogen. Mann kann selbstverstaendlich auch auf dem highway no. 1, dem Great Northern Highway, unten rum um die Kimberleys rum nach Oesten Richtung Darwin fahren. Auch dort gibts einiges zu sehen. Ich gehe mal davon aus dass 90 % des Verkehrs hier das auch so macht. Die anderen sind Abenteurer oder ganz einfach gesagt, die ... read more

Today we were on a mission to get to El Questro in time to hop on the boat cruise down Chamberlain Gorge. We packed up and shot off to make it just in time to get ourselves booked on. What a relief as I didn't fancy a huge walk in the heat today and a leisurely boat cruise seemed to be a wonderful option! Plus, we got plenty of glasses of bubbly and fresh fruit on the return leg of the journey so erm sweaty walk or boat ride with alcohol? Tough choice really! It was a really good trip and the guide was really informative, did you know that 83% of crocodile attacks happen to Germans? They also told us about the Archer fish....they spit at the months etc just at the water surface which ... read more

Day 3 was spent mainly on the long bumpy road up to Mitchell Falls. Rory's daughter burnt her hand quite badly on the hot coals in the fire place, the girls tended to like prodding and poking around the fire, as you do! It meant though, that we needed to go to Drysdale Station to get the first aider to look at it and, if need be, fly her to a hospital. She was ok, just got some special burn cream, but while she was being sorted Rory shouted us all a burger and they were goooooood!!! It was then back on the bumpy road with our tummies full to get to Mitchell Falls. Once there we were officially in one of the remotest parts of Australia, cool hey?! We nestled down in our swags again ... read more

We woke early in anticipation of our adventure this morning, and was out waiting for the bus at 6.15, as we had been told, for the bus to pick us up.....By 7 it had still not come and then the doubt hit us that maybe it had been cancelled! noooooooo! Fortunately it hadn't, and it never intended on picking up at 6.30, we had been told the wrong time, phew! The first port of call today was the Boab Prison Tree. Boab trees are everywhere in northern WA, they are super cool trees with big fat bottoms, that’s the best way to describe them! There is a story told that the Boab tress were the biggest trees around and grew much taller than the other trees and mocked the smaller ones. So for punishment they were ... read more