We had heard such mixed reports about El Questro - mostly from people saying they believed it expensive.  From a family perspective - absolutely not so.  This makes it to my top 3 of favourite places in Australia so far.  It was simply brilliant.  You see they charge $15 per adult per night for camping and $15 per adult for a 7 day pass to all their properties.  We stayed 5 nights and at $30 per night plus a bit for the pass over those ni...

We spent 2 days in the Bungles and they are very impressive.  We were there for Father's Day and had a Father's Day helicopter ride over the Bungles.  This is one of the photos.  It is toward the end of the dry season and the Bungles were very hot.  We did our walks at 6am or earlier and had finished by 9am - after that it was simply too hot.  The sun rises at 5am so it gets pretty hot by 9.  There is no water at the moment i...

This is a photo of the main part of Ivanhoe Crossing - the top of the bollards are at 450mm and we had great fun crossing it both ways - Rich drove one way and Cath the other - the kids loved it. We then went on to some 4WD tracks to Middle Springs and Black Rock Falls - just surrounding Kununurra. We are stopped here for 2 days and getting the car serviced before doing the rest of the Kimberleys. It is a very pleasant service town - again a place with so much...

Keep River National park is a little gem just 3km inside the NT border and is full of rock similar (so they say) to the Bungles. There was a terrific art site and we fluked a corroborree the night we were there. The corroborree was a training one, where the younger men were being coached in what to do, by no means was it a show, but visitors were welcome. They were painted and one of the men of the tribe explained that the dance was about the time a comet hit ...

Our timing for VRD was unfortunate as the managers were changing over quite unexpectedly and therefore the atmosphere was rather awkward. It meant that noone really wanted us there, but didn't want to say so. We arrived late on Sunday and left first thing on Tuesday. It was a shame as we had looked forward to experiencing something of life on a big station. However I can say that it is an immaculate station with a never ending water supply and loads of sprink...