After spending 2 days driving back down the now heavily corrugated Kalumburu road, with Alf continuing with his handyman skills and recovery of a tourist vehicle bogged in sand, we are back on the Gibb River Road heading further west. Along the way there have been numerous wonderful stations and gorges to explore, including Royce & Sheryl stopped on the road by a helicopter mustering cattle - so it has taken us just over a week to drive the remainder 400km o...

The next chapter of our adventure was to head further north to Kalumburu, which was originally a mission founded in 1908 by Benedictine monks. The mission still runs here and they have a store and a campground and a wonderful museum with an interesting history. The road between Mitchell Plateau and Kalumburu continued to be reasonably corrugated and then deteriorated to about 40km/hr for the last 20km. Thank goodness we still really enjoy the drives as well. W...

The Kalumburu Road heading north has been a lot rougher, with lots of big corrugations, especially between the Gibb River and Drysdale Station. We stopped for a few days at the King Edward River campground so that we could explore the Mitchell Plateau and see the well known 'Mitchell Falls'. We also needed to attend to a few repairs which I'll mention later. The campground is right next to the King Edward River which was perfect to have a dip in on these hot days...

After El Questro, the Gibb River Road crosses the Pentecost River which is impassable in the wet season and saltwater crocodiles are found here. It's also a tidal river, so thankfully we had no problems with the depth of the water and we'd made sure Anita wasn't going to cross on her own on the bike. We had given her a lift to the main road from El Questro and had hoped to meet up with her again at Home Valley Station. The scenery at the crossing is like a painti...

After two weeks of no reception, we finally have a window of opportunity to update our travels. We started the rugged Gibb River Road with a 'luxury' stay at the El Questro Wilderness Park - not the $2000 per night accommodation on offer, but a lovely site among the trees and live music in the evening by a very talented guitarist called Chris Matthews! We spent 2 nights here and tackled a couple of gorge walks and a soak in the Zebedee Thermal Springs, which we ...