Just Trip'in around : Kimberly's and around

· Timber Creek

· Kununurra

· Wyndham

· Fletcher Creek

Bungle Bungles
Derby
Broome

After Katherine we headed over the border. The drive through the Kimberly region is an awesome visual landscape of constant red rocky mountain outcrops. Some of it looks like it’s strait out of an old western movie.

We did a big day of driving with a stop at a road house in Timber Creek then on to Kununurra. We just gained 2 hours and would have lost all fruit and veg at Border if we weren’t prepared. We did some walks around Kununurra, looked at the famous Lake Argyle and re stocked supplies. (Di was hoping for a pink diamond from the Argyle Mine but the budget wasn’t going to stretch that far)

This what our view out the van at Kunnanara

On to Wyndam, our first industrial town port. Our caravan park was an interesting place with a resident Donkey (Fuzzy) which casually strolled from camp to camp, helicopter landings and the locals turning on the noise overnight.

Parrys Lagoon out of Wyndam

Parrys Lagoon The Boab trees are odd

Pelicans on Parrys Lagoon

The Bungle Bungles (or should I say Purnululu National Park) road is through the Mabel Downs Station which was another test of our faithful little tug pulling our home through some 6 Creek crossings, it's safe to say our navigator was a little tense -52km and about 3 hours later. A couple of days to do the walks on offer and take in the spectacular rock formations and colours of the Kimberly’s - 350 millions years old. Then back out over the creeks and corrugations. These gravel roads take their toll on the vehicles, bits of them lying around all the way out.

The Bungles rock is unusually layered

The unusual rock formation at the Bungles

Hiking the southern end of the Bungles

Bungles

Sunset from our camp at Bungles

Derby Pier , massive tides

Another massive day on the road to Derby, another industry town . We took a day trip out to Windjana Gorge. This gorge is part of the Devonian Reef so you could see shells in the rock that are millions of years old. There were a lot of Fresh water Crocs (at least 25 on one river bank), the road out was the worst road yet with big corrugations, we were over it!

Freshie on the move

Sun baking Freshies at Windjana

Its a hard life being a photo model

Here we are in Broome. It’s understandable why the interest in this place. Cable Beach is a nice spot to stop for the day on the beach the water was so blue.We stopped at the Broome Pistol Club, which was a little unusual with the gun noise; you get what you pay for, it was the cheapest in town. We caught up with the Beales at a Cable sunset, (Bendigo mates parents) nice to see a familiar face.While we were in Broome we saw some Dinosaur prints in the rocks, which you can only see at low tide.