The outback adventures of Smash and Trundle
Another slow start morning, and we lazily made our way back to Kalbarri to do a quick tour around the inland river gorges before it got too hot. We took the gravelly and heavily graded road with a stream of other … Read More »
Woke up in the Derby caravan park (we arrived too late yesterday to find anything else..) to a luxurious breakfast of Kununurra mango! Amazing! And watched the resident albino peacock strut around and fuss which was hilarious. We checked out … Read More »
Up with the smell of Ray’s delicious bacon, eggs and onions for breakfast along with some honeydew and bits and pieces from our snack supplies. We were joined by a very handsome and very photogenic blue winged kookaburra who was … Read More »
Once everyone was packed and ready to go, we started the slow and steady drive down south to the Bungle Bungle turn off in convoy with the boys. The stops for smoko and topping up cold bottled water were actually … Read More »
Off we trek to the Gibb River Road! …well, just the very start bit of it. The one section that’s bitumen. So it’s not really that hardcore. We were heading for Emma Gorge for the morning to have a walk … Read More »
Getting up early for the sunrise Yellow Water boat cruise wasn’t too difficult as it’s usually too hot to sleep in past 6am anyway, so we pulled in to the billabong area at 6.30 as the sun was rising through … Read More »
Woke up to a luxurious breakfast of rockmelon and yoghurt (in sachets! Everything in sachets as we can’t fit tubs and square things in our moderately small icebox) and left camp to go see another rock art site, Nourlangie. The … Read More »
Day 1: We’d woken up super early and pre-arranged a car drop off at the end of the trail with the wonderful Cecilia and the gang from Tindall so we headed out with the troops at 6am to get us … Read More »
The heat of the sun woke us up in the morning – we’re already feeling the tropical weather coming along – and we had a leisurely start to the day with some pancakes for breakfast and slowly packing up our … Read More »
Guy had written us up an itinerary for the day to head out to the West MacDonnell Ranges and go for some walks around the beautiful gorges and rock formations that the region was famous for, so we drove out … Read More »