Broome to Kununurra

We left Broome, a little sad as we had enjoyed our stay.  We went straight to Derby to for the day, well an hour or two! First stop was the jetty for a look, not too exciting.  The tide was on the way in and we could see the tide rushing in under the jetty.  We had a picnic lunch, watching the falcons swooping then drove to check out the Prison Boab tree and the big trough.  Good bit of history and education for the kids, and adults!

We drove out of Derby and drove as far as we could be bothered that afternoon and stopped at a random free rest area for the night.  We were treated to another exceptional sunset from WA.

About a third of the way to Kununura near Fitzroy Crossing was Giekie Gorge.  We had a fabulous time here.  First we went on two small basic walks from the gorge.  Then we went on the ranger run gorge trip.  It was just lovely to be out on the river, we really enjoyed it.  We saw a couple of crocs, pretty exciting!  The gorge is really pretty and I enjoyed taking a few pics.  We were also lucky enough to have an interesting guide who loved to chat about the mighty Fitzroy river, much to Marks delight.  Love meeting all these characters around this country.  We had one more overnight stop at a rest area before we went to Kununurra.

Morning tea on the A frame

The height of the floods

Floods right up to the top of the shelter

We arrived in Kununurra and stayed at Kimberlyland on the lake.  A nice enough park, bit dusty but pretty much like everything in this area.  We set up and began organising our crap ready to go in the tent for three weeks.  We also randomly ran into our friends from Alice, Pete, Sam, and kids which was nice.  I got a surprise when this guy yelled from across the road and realised who it was, small world!  Other than chatting to these guys and packing we basically only went to the rodeo.  Of course Charlotte loved the rodeo, even spent her birthday money on a cowgirl shirt.  The rest of us had fun, rodeos are always a laugh, but I do get a little worries about those bulls.  One cowboy got a bad charge to the leg and limped away!  Dangerous pastime.  That's about it for Kununurra, to the Gibb we go.  Back tracking to Fitzroy Crossing now we have stored the van in Kununurra.