Monthly Archives: August 2010

A late start today, up at sunrise & packing for our trip to Broome, its only 220km & on bitumen so fairly easy.  The only interesting bits, apart from the amazing boab trees that I always admire, were the single … Continue reading →

Another pre-sunrise start to the day.  Today we were picked up at 8.15am by a minibus & taken to the Derby airport to catch a seaplane out to the horizontal waterfall.  The seaplane looks very ungainly on land, sitting so … Continue reading →

The dawn bird chorus this morning was particularly noticeable, apart from the close birds in the trees around the Karavan, there was a distant chorus of a multitude of wading birds on the vast mudflats next to the caravan park, … Continue reading →

Fitzroy Crossing like most of the small outback towns are just small hamlets with a few houses & mainly aboriginal people, if you are lucky a small grocery store, one or two fuel station/road house (to eat basic meals & … Continue reading →

An exciting fun day at Derby Caravan Park – woke to the distant sound of birds or was it the sound of our fellow campers waking.  We are at a powered site so mod con it was – made breakfast … Continue reading →

A leisurely start this morning, we didn’t get up until sunrise as the Geikie Gorge boat cruise we wanted to be on was the 9.30am one. Spent a bit of time doing some maintenance on the Karavan, then took the … Continue reading →

We got up with the birds this morning, wolfed down breakfast & we were inside the track to Windjana Gorge just as the sun was rising.  With John & Sue, we were the first ones out enjoying the tranquillity & … Continue reading →

Tereza & I were up before sunrise yet again & saw another great sunrise with the birdlife becoming active.  We had a leisurely breakfast of bacon & eggs before packing & on our way again.  There were a few creek … Continue reading →

It is our 24th wedding anniversary today.  We drove the additional 11km into Bell Gorge from the Silent Grove camp ground.   The walk from the car park to the gorge was along a creek bed to start with, not too … Continue reading →

Before setting out I decided to photograph the dust that came into our “King of the Road” even though it has good seals it was just inevitable where the poor thing has been dragged through.  The outside & the car … Continue reading →