Saturday 18th August

After we left Timber Creek we travelled south down the Buchannan Hwy which was dirt, through Jasper Gorge and camped at Jasper Creek we travelled only 85 Ks.

Friday 17th August

We travelled 135 Ks to Timber Creek, on the way we stopped at Gregory’s Tree which is a Boab tree & it was craved back in 1856 during Gregory’s exploring days in NT.

In Timber Creek we toured the Police Museum & went on a 4 ½ hour cruise on Victoria River, we saw Wallabies, Crocodiles salt & freshies, Jabiru’s, Pelicans. Neville the guy who was our skipper on the cruise caught some Catfish then feed the Sea Eagles and Hawks.

We also watched a beautiful sunset.

Thursday 16th August

Phill & Shell got their cruiser back just before lunch, so we left Kununurra, we had a kodak moment at the border and lost 90 minutes of the day.
We called in at Newry Station, were we worked for the muster season of 2010, to say g'day to Tom & Camiella.
We camped not far up the road at Saddle Creek we travelled 125 ks.

Thursday 16th August



Dale washing the camper

Monday when we packed to leave Kununurra, we didn’t really leave. The guys washed the cruisers & campers, then Phill & Shell fuelled up & discovered their fuel tank was leaking. We drove around Kununurra for an hour to find someone to fix it; eventually one guy would do it but not straight away. To cut a long story short, 3 three days later & 2 different parks; we have been in Kununurra 6 days & 3 different caravan parks must be a record. The job was bigger than the guy first thought, the tank had actually cracked all around the filler neck not just the filler hose.

Filling in our time

The guy is working on Phill & Shell’s cruiser now, so we will be back on the road by this afternoon. Don't know when we will next be able to update the blog.  

Kununurra

View from Kelly's Knob

We Spend 3 days in Kununurra, the first day we found a park & set up, we found a lady in the park who was a hairdresser we all got our ears lowered. Second day we caught up on the washing & grocery shopping to restock our supplies for our trip down the Canning. We rang our parents & girls and updated the blog. We went out to dinner at Kelly’s Bar & Grill which was very nice.

Shell & Phill enjoying Sunset

Our third day we ate out for lunch then went to the Hoochery, where we sampled some of their rum drinks & cheesecake which were very nice so we just had to buy some for us to enjoy on the rest of our trip. We went to Kelly’s Knob to watch sunset a well.

Which one do we choose to taste at the Hoochery

Enjoying a sample at the Hoockery

Saturday 11th August 2012

G’day all, after 15 days we are back in phone/internet range. In the 15 days we travelled 1840 Ks from Broome to Kununurra, we had an amazing experience travelling the Gibb River Road to say the least. We’re very glad we did it now so we could do all the walks into the Gorges, some were very rocky, uphill down dale but well worth the effort. The roads conditions changed all the time, some days we had full on corrugation, other days we had rocks, dulldust, sand or all of them mixed together to keep us on our toes.

The landscape kept changing all the time as often as the road conditions, it was just amazing from all the Gorges, Waterfalls,Trees, Valleys, Lagoons, Rivers, Creeks, Mountains Ranges to Wide Open spaces, here’s that word again amazing, the Kimberley is certainly a beautiful part of Australia. I have taken so many photos; I have added only just a few to the blog and changed how I did the blog this time, instead of a day by day update I have just added the Gorges & a few River.

In Brief

At Drysdale Station the guys had one of their famous Kimberley Burgers and at Ellenbrae Station we all enjoyed their Scones, Jam & Cream.

 I have taken alot of photos of creeks, lagoon, boab trees, sunsets, planes, the guys at different places and doing different things, to many to bore you all with.

Along the Gibb River & Kalumbura Roads we had quite a few water crossings most only just wet the bottom of the tyres except the Gibb, Drysdale & Pentecost Rivers.

Dale crossing the Pentecost River