After exploring the top end of WA we leave the Broome & the Kimberley on the first trip towards home. Even though we are 5000 kms away we feel like we are on the way.
I heard this saying the other day "While it s hard to live in the Kimberley it is harder to leave it".
It is a beautiful area with the earth colours such a brilliant red it is hard to believe sometimes it 's natural. To live & farm here in the early days of isolation would have been extremely difficult. It is still isolated & seasons extreme but with technology, motor vehicles & improved roads life for the settlers in not as hard. The indigenous people who were displaced by the first cattle farmers must have found it extremely difficult. Especially when their water holes were overtaken & they were cut off from their traditional lands, water & religious areas. There were massive massacres on both sides with little understanding of each others needs. Not so sure anything has changed much!
This is the most interesting part of the landscape in nearly 200kms. Talk about white line fever!
While we have been over here there have been two head ons on single lane bridges despite good visibility. Two semis & a semi & " fourbie", both drivers at fault didn't notice the oncoming traffic! Semi-trailer? What semi-trailer?
At least rock Tones didnt see was not that big!
Stopped overnight at a free camp called Mary Pool. Lovely spot beside a river, the river bed dry during this season but it has plenty of water during wet season.
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| Dry river bed |
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| Artwork on a rock near the river |
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| Sunset through a smoky sky |
In the few months since we travelled across the bush & grass has dried right off & large areas have been burnt or are burning to limit the potential for "hot" fires.
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| "Cool" Grass fires |
Some of the old Boabs that abound, especially around Fitzroy Crossing. These trees have some bizarre shapes & sometimes seem to take on a lifelike appearance, like a strange old man. Lots of these trees have been names & initials carved into the massive trunks by travellers & explorers.
Our trip itinerary went astray at the Bungle Bungles. Planning on a stopover & taking a tour in to the Bungles, instead of driving ourselves & risking tyres on an extremely rough & corrugated road, due to lack of planning ahead (as is normal for us), we discovered we had to wait two days for the next tour. With the outside temperatures a bit warm & a 30knot hot wind blowing across dry dusty ground the Bungles suddenly lost their attraction & we opted to move on.
With scenery of lots of dry grass, burnt paddocks & hot gusty winds pushing the van around the arrival in our overnight stop in Kunnunurra on the way to Katherine was very welcome.
The name of this creek conjures up a desperation for a drink Prefer a wine myself!
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