Gibb River Rd -Derby cont.

Guess who Cable Beach Broome, didn't think I'd ever see Grubby on a camel but there you go!! we really did enjoy it wait until you see the video it's hilarious.

Paul and Marilyn camel back riding on Cable Beach it's what you do in Broome, a real giggle especially when the darn things get up.
Happy hour Cable Beach Broome we had a great after-noon and no we didn't go nudie a lot did though mostly old guys?? what's with that??

Flying the flag at Roebuck Plains road-side stop, pretty much the boys having been putting up their flag where-ever we stop.


A road-side stop on the way to Broom we couldn't get into a park in Broome until the next day so we stopped here, thank heavens it didn't rain or we would have been really diry!!

Beautiful area much better than the town itself and again the boabs are a feature.

Of to have a look at their wet-lands as if we haven't had enough water!!
Lots of History around Derby this is their prison boab that they use to use as a lock-up, it's a huge old tree but we have seen bigger.

Cheeky bird in Derby

Having fun in Derby, we stayed here for a couple of days and once again it rained but as you can see it didn't stop us from having fun.

More boabs this one looks very much worse for the wear. Near Tunnel creek

This is the next day coming out of Windjana/Tunnel creek area and as you can see it bucketed down again!! that's Paul and Marilyn in front of us and we could hardly see them by this time we where back on the hard dirt and it wasn't so bad a bit before we hit a creek line that was very interesting so slippery I was hanging on I can tell you.

At the of Tunnel Creek, very pleased with ourselves!!

Tunnel creek where you walk through the gorge under-ground and through the creek about half a metre deep

Gibb River Rd - Derby

Sunset at Windjana Marilyn, Me and Paul who's taking the photo??

Our camp at Windjana, still dirty and as it turned out we where about to get worse as it rained the day we left and we where "playing" in the mud again.

Beautiful Windjana Gorge it was a 7k walk but worth every minute, more boabs as Marilyn would say.

Back on the Gibb River Rd

Proof we where here

And we found another water-fall this one was very deep no swimming over this one.

As you can see we really loved this place-Bell's gorge cont

The reflections where amazing

Grubby leads the way up over the ridge and away we go!!

Continuing the love affair with the boabs!!

Bell's from a distance.

So many lovely flowers

The things that take your eye!!

Looking down on the main water-fall at Bell's

Beautiful Bell's Gorge we had a wonderful day here it's all about getting away from the crowds and finding that special place. We swam and found another water-fall further up the gorge, watched the monitors swim had a lovely lunch "one of the best"

Rocky start to this walk, quite steep as well

Coming into Bell's Gorge we found the grader, what a lonely job and never ending but thank heavens for them

Marilyn at Silent Grove

Better shot of the lizard

Big monitor lizard at Silent Grove camp ground, every-one was feeding him so he just grows and grows.

More red earth, coming along the Gibb not so bad here, where's the grader??

Imintji road-house a welcome morning tea stop along the way, hot home-made kangaroo meat pies and a apple pie to finish off yum!!

Strange water plants at Adcock Gorge

Boabs at Adcock Gorge "our favourite tree" at the moment anyway.

Looking down Barnett Gorge

Kimberley Rose photo taken at Barnett gorge, when Bill parked the van and truck along side a tour bus at this gorge all the "oldies" couldn't believe their eyes it was a bit of a giggle watching their faces as they watched him park it. Barnett was a small gorge and not one of the best even so we had a good walk, it was hot and there where lots of flies surprise, surprise!!

2010 cont Mitchell Plateau, Port Warrender, Kalumburu

Bougainvillea at Kalumburu the colors are wonderful against the blue, blue sky.

Inside the church at Kalumburu the service was amazing all the locals sang and interacted with each other and us it really was a lovely experience the kids are just so gorgeous.

Guess who at Kalumburu

Moon rise at Kalumburu, the fences are to keep the wild horses out of the area where you camp.

One of many boab trees that you see in this area, looking out over the bay

Port Warrender one of many beautiful sun-rises how come we get up so early??

View driving into Port Warrender little did we know that the road from here on in was really on a very rough track this is one of their clay/salt/mud flats where nothing much grows

Another beautiful place called Surveyor's pool that we visited along the way.

Here's proof not a good photo but we where there, at the moment it feels like a million years ago instead of a few weeks.

Here they are the spectacular Mitchell Fall's we finally made it most amazing sight it was worth every hard yard as they say.

Creek crossing on our way into Mitchell Fall's it's a two and half hour walk longer if you take your time and enjoy the scenery which of-course we did.

I'm back we are actually in Broome not so the blog is well behind but the internet service up here is not so hot. These photos are from Mitchell Fall's area and then onto Kalumburu which is a mission run by the Benedict Monks and it is also an Aboriginal community. We loved both places and in-between we went to a more remote place called Port Warrender and stayed over-night it was a bit of an adventure getting in there the last eight kilometers took us over an hour so slow going very rough but great fun.