El Questro is a privately owned cattle station about 90 kms from Kununurra. There's a variety of accommodation options including powered sites, camping, bungalows. As our van is not an off-road one and the 16km into El Questro is unsealed, we decided to stay in a bungalow. So we packed our overnight bags for a 2 night stay, secured the van and left it at the Ivanhoe Caravan Park along with the bikes. On our way out of Kununurra, we had morning tea at a love...

We left from our grassy spot in Timber Creek late morning and headed back on the Victoria Highway to Kununurra. Soon after we departed, we saw the turnoff to Gregory's Tree, which is a famous boab tree carved by the explorer Augustus Gregory over 150 years ago. The 3.5 km road in was unsealed so it was a bit slow with the van, and the flies were shocking but we had to visit just for the name of it! We stopped at the NT/WA Border Quarantine Station. We had l...

We left Katherine via the Coffee Club and Post Office, and made our way down the Victoria Highway. We stopped at the Joe Creek Picnic Area for lunch in the Gregory National Park, and on the way we drove over the "Vince Connolly Crossing" (hi Uncle Vincent!). Timber Creek's about halfway to Kunanurra (still 300km), and that was to be our overnight stay. When we arrived around 3pm, Mum & Renee checked out the 2 caravan parks and they decided on the Wirib T...

We had a nice buffet breakfast at the Crocodile Hotel, and checked out sometime after 10am after Dad took a conference call and we got our stuff out of the room and back to the van! Not that easy transitioning from once place to the other, as half the stuff's in one place and the other half's in the other! Overall our experience at Kakadu was great (though perhaps not as spectacular as we thought it would be??). The hotel was also pretty good (though showing ...

We headed back down the Kakadu Highway again today to a place called Jim Jim Falls. It's a bit of an adventure to get there - 40kms of sealed road, followed by 50kms of unsealed road - much of it quite corrugated. Then 5kms of 4WD on a very narrow sandy track. Finally a 900m walk over rocks and large boulders past a large billabong with lots of crocodile warning signs to get to the Jim Jim Falls. The area is beautiful - even though the falls are dry at this ...