Long time no hear or better read!
Finally I reached the places where no (mobile) signal is available and the infrastructure is back to basic. Endless farms & roads; bushfires instead of moaning the grass; nights out under the freezing bush sky & wild creatures in your backyard …
… here I am at the Kimberley`s!!!
They recently got famous again as the movie AUSTRALIA with Nicole Kidman & Hugh Jackman was played there.Leaving the beach side city of Broome behind to visit Derby – famous for the huge prison boab tree – on the way to Fitzroy crossing, where Aboriginals stock up for cold months.
Derby itself is not a jewel, but it either leads you there for the first (but definitely not last) prison boab tree & an oversized water place for cattle or if you take the off-road track – to the famous Gibb River Road (sorry not for our Jacqueline ;-)
The boab trees of larger scale are about 150 years old and served in the past as overnight prison (empty inside the trunk) or as Vitamin A source for long travels (just the fruit – but taste horrible)
Fitzroy Crossing invites to the close situated and easy accessible Geike Gorge which you can explore by two trails. Don`t underestimate the rough area – especially the dried out creek along the Fitzroy River with its sweet water crocs…
… too much for me, I got a flat tire x-)
Going further up - to the most northern & oldest city of West Australia – Wyndham. It`s a small sleepy city with not much to see at first sight.
But it is definitely worth going there: having a refreshing swim at the crocodile free swim hole at “Grotto”, exploring field of boab trees, enjoying the sunset at the 5 River Look-out or check the latest deals for the recent real estate offers – worth a look …
Finishing this trip at Kununarra - a new city which is mainly living from the tourism of the Gibb River Road or the near Prunululu National Park (The Bungle Bungles).
Here you have the nature just in front of your door – like the 3km close Mirima NP (Hidden Valley) with it`s little version of the Bungles ...
... or the sweet crocodiles just 30m away from your campervan car waiting in the swim zone for its next snack ;-)
Crocodile Rock
