From Perth to Kununurra, via the Gibb River Road, for the 2007 Australian Safari.
Yannerie Pool
The drive north was uneventful and, apart from a stop at Yannerie Pool, I recorded only the Gibb River Road portion of the Road Trip.
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- Yannerie Pool
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- Yannerie Pool
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- Yannerie Pool
Willare
The Willare Bridge Roadhouse is immediately on the north side of the mighty Fitzroy River, 30 kilometres before the Great Northern Highway and the Derby Highway diverge.
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- Minnie River at Willare.
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- Willare Bridge Roadhouse
The Gibb River Road turnoff is a further 36 kilometres north on the Derby Highway.
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- Start of the Gibb River Road.
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- Boab prison tree at the start of the Gibb River Road.
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- Termites mounds near the start of ‘the Gibb’.
Windjana Gorge
128 kilometres to the east the iconic, easily accessible Windjana Gorge has been carved through the Napier Range (an ancient Devonian reef) by the Lennard River.
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- Kim Howard at Windjana Gorge.
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- Windjana Gorge
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- Windjana Gorge
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- Windjana Gorge
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- At Windjana Gorge.
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- Windjana Gorge
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- Windjana Gorge
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- Windjana Gorge
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- At Windjana.
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- At Windjana.
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- Little Corellas
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- Little Corellas
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- Little Corellas
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- Johnston freshwater crocodiles.
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- Crocodylus Johnstoni
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- ‘Freshies’
Bell Gorge
Bell Gorge, the most famous of the gorges along the Gibb, is about 95 kilometres east of Windjana (turnoff to turnoff).
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- On the walk into Bell Gorge.
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- Kim Howard approaching Bell Creek.
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- Bell Creek
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- The falls at Bell Gorge.
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- Bell Gorge
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- Bell Gorge downriver from the falls.
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- Bell Gorge
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- Safe enough.
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- Fairly big drop.
Rangeland
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- In the King Leopold Ranges.
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- Along the Gibb.
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- Kalumburu Turnoff
Two Flat Tyres and a Tech Screw in a Third One
At the top of the hill overlooking Home Valley Station I got out from behind the wheel to take a break from driving. As I walked around the back of the vehicle Kim said, “We’ve got a flat!”. I said, “Yeah, I know.” He said, “No, not that side, this side.” I said, “This side!” We had two flats.
Changed them both and as Kim walked past front of the vehicle he said, “Hey, have a look at this.” There was a tech screw in the left front tyre. What luck. We crawled into HVS and I bought new tyres all round.
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- Towards Home Valley Station.
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- Kim Howard at the Pentecost River.
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- Pentecost River crossing.
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- Zebedee Hot Springs
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- Cockburn Range
Australian Safari at Kununurra
We drove into Kununurra for the start of the 2007 Australian Safari – the first in Western Australia.
© Kim Epton 2007-2024
437 words, 41 photographs
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