The road from Broome is long. Doesn’t really matter in which direction you are going, you will be going for a while. As we don’t have a 4WD we couldn’t take the Gibb River Road through Kimberley but had to stick to the sealed road on Kimberley’s edge. There isn’t all that much along the way, especially not for 2WD so we only made two stops – Tunnel Creek and Kununurra.
Tunnel Creek, as name suggests, is a tunnel. And once again we were back to our now quite popular activity – wading. Only this time in darkness. Here is what it looks like:
On the way to Kununurra we pulled up in Halls Creek which had an interesting bottle shop:
The had Cascade Light and Carlton Light.
Along the way from Broome to Katherine there is plenty of free camping along the highway on nice rest stops. Along there we met a lot of nice people and swapped travel stories and tips which was great after our VIC/SA solitude. One rest stop we couldn’t help ourselves and had to take a photo of, unfortunately it doesn’t quite do it justice. It’s a place about 200m off the highway and when we approached it our jaws just dropped open. There was AT LEAST hundred caravans, campervans, camper trailers and tents. In dark you could easily mistake it for a small village.
One other spot we definitely recommend for overnight stay is a rest stop just pass the WA/NT border. You are not allowed to take any fruit, veggies, honey and about 100 other things across the border and as it so happened we were the only ones on the whole rest stop coming from WA and going to NT. Word got out and within couple of hours we met heaps of great people and collected about weeks supply of food.
That's good but. Least we know ur not wasting cash on beer.
ReplyDeleteThose caves look awesome.
Wading in waste deep water in a pitch black tunnel? Ack! You're braving than I, Anna!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you're in NT already! Wow. And it's great to hear that the Aussie spirit is alive and kicking out there someone - so nice that people helped you guys out with food.