Jabiru-Mary River Roadhouse-Pine Creek-Katherine
Jabiru: Caravan sight was right in town with the bakery 5 minutes away. The nights were quite entertaining as the aborigine’s were in great form either chanting or howling along with the dogs. This generally continued until the wee hours of the morning where they either ran out of piss or passed out! Leaving Jabiru heading south west to Katherine was a good ride with the roads following the contours of the hills. Stopping for fuel at Mary River Roadhouse, had a bit of a problem as to whether or not you were loading up with flies or fuel………
Katherine caravan Big 4 site had to be the best that I've been in so far. Good facilities and green, green grass to lay the tent down under the trees.
Katherine-Victoria River-Timber Creek-Kununurra
Crossing into Western Australia, the numbers for the Northern Territories are: GPS for NT was 4866.96km at 1241hrs (Perth time).
Going through Quarantine as you enter WA, they removed the 25 kilo's of Cadbury chocolate I had in my backpack...........contraband!
Once I was into WA and heading down the road I had my first major helmet bird kill. It was a wedge tail eagle with a 3 meter wing span............or maybe I lie a bit..me thinks it was along the size of a sparrow(believable).
Another great idea to bring in an alien species to control a local pest……..!
Kununurra was the next stop for a day or two. Made a side trip up to Lake Arglye, which contains 6 times the water volume as Sydney harbor. It is also the largest man made lake in the southern hemisphere.
Kununurra-Wyndham-El Questro Wilderness Park
Next stop was the Gibb River road with a side trip up to Wyndham. Nothing to report there and being Sunday, talk about no one out in the public eye did find an Afghan cemetery though. The afghan’s were brought over in the 1840’s along with the first camels to Australia. As the camels proved to be so efficient in the desert, hundreds of camels were imported along with their trainers.
Now onto the Gibb River road, El Questro was the first night stop and it would be the only stop. Corrugated all of the way in and eating dust from every idiot driving a 4WD vehicle. The water crossings were a bit of a challenge being the biggest one was axle deep and 100 meters across just before getting into the sight itself. A couple of bikers before me had gone just a bit too fast, stalled out and dropping their bikes.
El Questro-Halls Creek
Getting out of El Questro the following morning at 0600hrs hoping to beat anyone else along the road was wishful thinking but when I did hit the sealed road you could have heard me scream for miles.
Halls Creek was the next stop with the tent sight in the middle of town. Again being entertained into the late hours by the aborigine’s. Next morning the temp was in single digits but as I had over 600km to cover to get to Broome, the earlier the better.
Halls Creek-Fizroy Crossing-Willare Bridge Roadhouse-Broome
It was another very long ride with the roads strenching straight to the horizon. The only break in routine was either a town or roadhouse every 250-300km down the road.
Broome it is for the next couple of days. With a very heavy dew in the morning all of my gear was wet but I think again it could be a lot worse sitting in the morning rush hour traffic getting into Honolulu.
The famous Australia Bottle Tree
Termite mounds
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