Gibb River Road

After a day to recuperate from our adventure, we left the van in storage and went out to continue the Gibb River Road from the western end. The road was much better than we expected and we went along the Wndjana Gorge road out to Tunnel Creek. You walk through a cave which had been worn by a great force of water over milions of years. You definately need a torch and old shoes that you dont mind getting wet, thankfully we wore our aqua shoes. The water is quite cold and knee deep in places. After 750 metres you come out into the open, the creek still has water in it but not flowing much as it is the dry season, would be good to see in the wet. In fact so much of what we have seen in the Kimberleys would be so different in the wet but unfortunately much of it is inaccessible by road. We went back to Windjana camp ground, cheap at $11 a night even though the advertised price is $20, we werent about to complain.
After lunch we set off for the 7klm round trip into the Gorge, we walked solid for 50 minutes which meant we should have come to the end of the trail, but no, as it was getting on in the afternoon we decided to turn back, didnt want to have the ranger out looking for us. The Gorge itself is beautiful, enormous cliff faces of black and gold plunging down into the water. There are freshwater crocodiles everywhere, in fact 74 have been counted, they laze about on the river bank sunning themselves. It was a beautiful place.
Next morning we packed up camp and backtracked to the Gibb Road and drove to Silent Grove and Bells Gorge, the road in was 30klms and the last 10 klms were atrocious, very rough and rocky, hell on tyres. The Gorge itself was worth the walk, again down a very rocky path, over the creek to a beautiful waterfall, a number of people having a swim. When we got back to the car we found we had a flat tyre so had to change it. As it was a Friday we thought we had better get back to Derby as we needed to get it fixed before Monday, just got to the tyre place as he was closing, so has put a plug in it.
We have spent the last couple of days taking it easy, will leave here on Monday morning and head towards Broome but will do a couple of free camps along the way, have booked Broome for 10 days and have a long list of things we want to do, certainly a camel ride along Cable Beach.
I guess I will have a lot of pics and stories to tell when we get there