Ramblings from the road
27th June 2002: Winjana Gorge – Bell Creek
We make our way to the famous Gibb River Road (GRR) travelling around 90kms along its length and passing some great scenery, in particular the King Leopold Ranges. Bell Gorge is 29kms off the GRR with two creek crossing required between the GRR and the gorge.
After packing up we make our way into Fitzroy Crossing for a brief stop for supplies and then drive another 170kms north to Winjana Gorge.
The Winjana Gorge camp is stunning with the gorge walls as a backdrop . Plenty of fresh-water crocodiles – you can practically stand beside them. The gorge walk is around 7km return up the Lenard River, with high, colourful cliffs on both sides. Our our return we find the croc’s are a lot more active with many diving off the rocks, swimming & walking around.
Continue reading “Windjana”Great couple of weeks spent exploring Broome but time to move on. Packing up was a bit of a challenge as its our first time packing with Paul on board.
Just south of Derby we stop at the Boab Prison Tree, a large hollow Boab tree allegedly used in the 1890’s as a holding cell for Aboriginal prisoners on their way to Derby town for sentencing.
