The morning of the 9th of June, couldn't come quick enough for Vikki and I. We had been waiting in anticipation for months to start our holiday of exploring the top end of WA.

After spending the night in Broome we met Kieran, Nikki and Azra at the Cable Beach car park at approx 7.30am, once completing a quick check we hit the road to travel along the Highway to find the turn off to Cape Leveque, 203 kilometres of road way that will test the best of cars suspension and then reward you once you have conquered the road to open up and let you come face to face with what can only be described as sheer beauty, that's Cape Leveque.

Kooljaman wraps its arms around you and welcomes those that want to experience something that remains virtually untouched and ruined by money grabbing bureaucrats', never let the area be sold out. It really is a magnificent area. Kooljaman at Cape Leveque is a unique wilderness style luxury camp on the tip of the Dampier Peninsula, 220km north of Broome. It is jointly owned by Djarindjin and One Arm Point Aboriginal communities. Kooljaman is the Bardi aboriginal name for Cape Leveque, 220km north of Broome at the tip of the Dampier Peninsular. The Federal Department of Transport previously controlled the land for the purposes of operating a lighthouse. In 1986 the lighthouse was automated and demanned, the land was purchased by the Aboriginal Development Commission for the benefit of Aboriginal people. As a result the A.D.C., along with other Government Departments and the Bardi people chose to develop the area into a tourist complex, linking up traditional ways with the fast encroaching 21st century and all that it represents

A couple of days exploring and meeting people was fantastic, the piece of resistance was the mud crabbing we participated with local owner Brian Lee, he is a gem of a bloke and a Hawthorn supporter which in my eyes makes him an alright bloke., he told of the family history dating back generations as a traditional land owner, his family has lived here for hundreds of years, he actually has a very good vision for the area and his people in developing this area into a tourist destination. Brian took a small group of us mud crabbing into the Hunter Creek system, I was totally gob smacked at the pristine beauty of this place, the 4x4 drive along some kilometres of white sand beaches was a privilege to be able to do. Brian worked all day to get mud crabs for us, Kieran made short work of them when we got back to camp and cooked them.

Some of the nights we spent on the beach watching the sunsets, rich red sunsets bouncing of the sand stone was awesome to see, Vikki actually was doing cart wheels and teaching Azra how to do some, the pics of this are attached, silly girl, someone should tell her how old she is!!

I met the Stevens family on the back beach, they come from Broome, poor beggars only need to travel 2.5 hours each month to drive up to the cape and camp out at Kooljaman, they were fishing and just having family time, really nice people and to top it off they are darn keen Hawthorn supporters, plenty of talk we did have.

We left Cape Leveque on the 12th after 3 great days and nights shared with Kieran, Nikki and Azra, fond memories we took from there on the road back to Broome to branch off to Derby and head along the Gibb to Windjana Gorge. Stopping in Derby for diesel cost $1.94 for diesel. At this stage I'm averaging 20.2 litres per 100 kilometres towing 2.5 tonne in the cruiser.

We finished the day getting into Windjana around 8pm, totally black and a little bit glad to get thereafter dodging cattle, kangaroos and wallabies on the first stage of the Gibb. To wake up the following morning to see the Gorge face was worth it all.