The Gibb River Road - or regularly travelled road and impressive Kimberleys

Day 1 We drive from Broome to Derby and visit the Boab Prison tree, a huge boab tree. Aboriginal people were held prisoner here in the late 19th century. Onwards, and hitting the gravel roads again! After some 150 km, we take a look at the Windjana Gorge. Hey, guess
what.......... they've got freshies there! Fresh-water crocodiles! And we could almost cuddle them! Hahaha, no joking, but we could get pretty close to them, like 5 meters away. A true Australian mum trusted these little fellas that much that she and her 2 year old toddler sat down next to a freshie, only 2 meters away. You gotta love the Aussies!

After this spine-tingling experience, we continue up the Gibb River Road (GRR) and arrive at our campsite. But just shortly before we actually arrive there, the outback has a surprise for us waiting at sunset.... a pretty deep creek crossing. Joost plunges into the creek to see how deep the water is, my own Outback Jack :) And after we decide that as long as the water does not gulp into the car everything can be done, we drive through it. With dry feet, we cook up our meal
under the stars and toast to a beautiful first day!

Day 2 Early in the morning we hit the road again to explore the nearby Bell Gorge, with it magnificent plunge pool and gorge. Swimming in a cascading waterfall, what else does a person want in the morning? We continue down the GRR and at the end of the day, the GRR decides to hit us! Big explosion, weird noices and a very, very, broken tyre! Beyond repair and totally lassurated on the side :) Changing the tyre in 36 degrees is not that pleasurable and we decide afterwards to call it a day. We camp at Ellenbrae Station, again under a beautiful starry
night.

Day 3 Rising at daylight, and onwards to Kununurra. We see a beautiful giant lizard, a goanna. We cross many creeks, floodways and finally: the Pentecost river. Again, as long as the water is not actually in the car, everything goes. The Aussies that cross the river first take a look at the people coming from the other side of the water, so we do the same and then decide it can be done. Again, dry feet, and final part to Kununurra.

We arrive in K. for some shopping and drive to the east to meet my brother and his friend on a roadside parking, where we will cook for these to great champs! Take a look at what they are doing: www.100dagenvoorkika.nl
And with that our second 4wd track ended!

The next morning the boys are of early to cycle the last 160 km to Kununurra. We take things easy and catch up with them on the border of Northern Territories and Western Australia. We make a big pancake lunch for the four of us, just before we have to throw away all fruit and vegetables to be able to enter WA. We just bought everything the day before in Kununurra (WA), but make that the cat wise :-) We follow the guys back to Kununurra and have dinner there together. This was really great, these 36 hours meeting in the middle of nowhere! The next day the boys cycle further west and we head of to the east to drop off our 4WD in Darwin in time.