Thanks for having us Kimberley, we love you.

We're alive!
We are now in Kununarra, on the WA/NT border after finishing the Gibb River Road. 24 days and we saw a massive amount of the Kimberley and loved every minute of it. Beautiful gorges, a huge variety of wildlife, 4 and 5 tiered waterfalls, challenging 4wding, and fishing off the North Kimberley coast.

A Map of where we travelled. We went pretty much everywhere. The black arrow is a place we went to called Bachsten Bush camp.

We needed food for at least 3 weeks (note essential pancake mix and chesse supreme dorritos).

One of the Freshwater crocs at Windjana gorge. We saw at least 30 sunning themselves on the bank.

Min swimming at Bell Gorge. Just working on her syncro moves.

Using her fine tuned radio-ing skills and call sign 'Mini Driver', Min let Mornington Wilderness camp know we were on the way.

About a 2 hr drive off the Gibb river road to Mornington. Mornington is owned by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy and aims to protect the flora and fauna over a huge area. Over 200 species of birds are found there. James has gone from hating birds to being a 'tweeter'. He just loves the Gouldian Finch.

Canoeing down Dimond gorge on the Mornington property.

Manning Gorge

Ouch. $2.40/L. The less said the better.

Min getting arty with her new camera. The Kimberley rose. New camera because James broke her underwater one (apparently underwater cameras work well as long as you don't take them underwater).

Rock art found around Mt Elizabeth station. This is a Wandjina (a very important spiritual figure in Aboriginal dreaming). Dated around 1000-2000 years.

This is a Bradshaw (Gwion gwion) art work. At least 17000 years old, the local indigenous people don't know anything about this type of art as it isn't part of their dreaming. Theories exist that this art was painted by a pre-aboriginal group of people that may have migrated from the south east asia area. You can definently see a Polynesian, almost African element.

From Mt Elizabeth, there is a 140km track out Bachsten creek bushcamp. We were highly recommend to go with another vehicle and met a great young family who were keen to go too (Min was pleased as they knew A LOT more about 4wding than James). Adam and Pam with their kids Sophie and Bardin were great fun and we loved travelling with them for the 5 days. The drive was spectacular.

Min had the job of checking the depth of water crossings (there was no way James was going to walk through known croc infested waters!)

How good are the green sun shades we tailored to the back windows? Min isn't as enthusiastic as James. Now the car is known as the Green and Champagne beast.

Ann and Rick, the lovely owners of Bachsten bushcamp maintain the track out there (the Munja track) each year. After the wet season, with a tractor and convoy of 4wds, they clear the track.

The most beautiful drive we have done. Thanks for the tip Anna.

Bogged. The driver shall remain nameless.

Min, redeeming herself after getting us bogged.

Arriving at Bachsten bushcamp, Ann and Rick mentioned in a very understated way that we might want to go and check out Bachsten gorge because it is 'nice'. 5 tier water fall and we had it to ourselves for the whole day.

Having a swim in the second tier.

All you need when exploring is a strong pair of speedos and a camera.

Wren gorge, 14km north of Bachsten bushcamp.

We met a lovely couple, Elly and James. She had a whole lot of homemade quince paste and kindly gave us some. Min enjoying some with cheese on damper. Delicious. Thanks Elly. Oh yeah, Mitchell falls in the background.

Min sneezing or spasming, not sure which.

Mitchell falls. Good. Watching the tour group cross the river to see the falls and seeing 3 of them fall in the water. Better.

Fine tuning the art of damper. Sesame seeds on this one. Crowning glory was the one with sultanas and cinnamon.

We travelled right up to the Aboriginal community of Kalumburu, on the North Kimberley coast. Adam (who with his family we continued to stalk after Bachsten) went out and caught a 1.4m spanish mackrel after 10 minutes. We camped at Honeymoon beach. A locally family run campground with a great, friendly atmosphere.

Ken and Shirley, a lovely couple from Moama, come up to Honeymoon beach every year for three months and go fishing. They offered to take us out on their boat, show us some of the coastline, & drop a line in. Min caught this saddle tail snapper almost straight away. You call that a fish?

This is a fish. 1.2m, 16kg Mulloway.

James didn't do it all by himself! Min hooked it but being so big it took all four of us a turn at reeling it in before it tired and James could reel it into the boat. Ken and Shirley, thank you so much again. The Golden snapper, Saddle tail snapper and Mulloway you helped us catch gave us the three best meals of the whole trip.

Crossing the Pentecost. When James passed some big exams last year, he sent a similar photo to Min to let her know he passed and the trip was going ahead. To actually be there and  to drive it ourselves was awesome. We loved it so much, we crossed it 5 times.

In the thermal pools of Zebedee springs, El Questro. The thing on James' face is his June attempt at a beard. Apologies if it offends anyone with a real beard.

Emma Gorge, El Questro.

No surprises here who collected the firewood.

Now James has realised his dream of 4wding through the Kimberley, he immediately starts on his next dream.