After the busy weeks on the Gibb River Road, Kununurra was a welcome place to slow down. A regional promotion offering help with the cost of tours also made a special evening possible: the Gourmet Camp Oven Experience. From the bus pickup to the cooking,…
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Kununurra gave us plenty to explore without returning to the rougher stretches of the Gibb. The 'mini Bungles' of Mirima backed onto our caravan park at Hidden Valley, and were an unexpected delight: red rock formations close enough for a walk from where we were…
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The road into Purnululu was, by a clear margin, the roughest we had driven so far. The reward was waiting at the other end: the Bungle Bungle domes and the astonishing light inside Echidna Chasm. In the chasm, the sunlight reaches down from above and…
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A collection of the smaller encounters around the Kimberley, with a few very large things mixed in. The agile wallabies had been living up to their name. We watched them clear heights that had made us wonder whether they were stuck, and quickly revised our…
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After following the sunshine across the Kimberley and the Northern Territory, winter finally caught up with us on the Atherton Tablelands. Our first rain in months came with a chilly morning and mist hanging around the trees. The damp air softened everything: reflections, branches and…
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