Crossed the infamous Pentecost river with jabirus in the distance into El Questro Wilderness Park. Spent the next 3 days camped on the river bank exploring Amalia Gorge, Zebedee Springs, Emma Gorge and El Questro Gorge. Hard to pick a favourite as all have something special about them. Emma Gorge is small but has such sheer walls and is icy cold. The springs are a little tropical oasis and we arrived early to try and miss the crowds. Cute boardwalk in with tr...

Home Valley was our next planned stop only 300 odd kilometers away but would be a full day of driving. Made it to Ellenbrae Station, a lush green garden full of tiny little finches for scones with fresh cream and jam. Planned to get to Home Valley by 4.30 in time to set up and have dinner before it got too dark. Road started to get a little rough but taking it nice and easy before the back tyre blew. No problem only 30 km to go and once we found the jack and ...

Topped up at the Imintji Store with fuel and bought some fresh produce, a loaf of frozen bread for $4.50, 5 apples at $1.50 each and piping hot chocolate chip muffins. Set up camp at Mt Barnett Roadhouse and an afternoon walk into Manning Gorge. Starts from the camping ground and you swim across the river floating your valuables in polystyrene boxes. The path is marked by glittering silver plastic strips hanging from the trees and winds up rocky sandstone out...

Still within the King Leopold Ranges Conservation Park we stopped at the Silent Grove campsite and drove to Bells Gorge. Pretty hike in then down some steep rocks for a swim. I'm amazed to see the age of some of the people successfully navigating these tricky pathways. After swimming with frogs and then sunning ourselves on the rocks along with a water monitor it was time to climb back up to the car park. Shame there is no swimming hole at the top! This is ...

Left our commodore and camper trailer at the Broome Army Base and headed north in our trusty 'Thrifty' 4WD. Refueled at Derby before turning onto the Gibb River road around lunch time. For the next 4 hours we bounced our way along the 189km to Mt Hart. Grassy little campsite next to a river with resident freshwater crocs, not that we caught a glimpse of any. Our first attempt at putting up the tent was a bit dodgy but we entertained the other couple of campe...