The roads around Broome are of the well-frequented variety, with crowds of visitors soaking up the winter sun. After six weeks of intensive relaxing on Cable Beach, it was time to move on.
Cameron was keen to travel by camel (but not keen enough to actually pay to sit on one).
But I thought the Van would be more comfortable - so we took the somewhat-less travelled gravel road to Windjana Gorge, in the West Kimberley.
Lucky we took the van, because it has excellent views from the bedroom window...
...whereas the view from the camel would have looked like this.
A little further down the dusty road, still following the paths of many, we put on our headlamps and went into deep, dark Tunnel Creek.
The roads after here though, would have inspired Robert Frost in their a lot-less-travelled-ness, especially by 2WDs. We had some nervous, knee-deep river crossings (I know they were knee-deep, because Cameron made me walk across them first. And I know I was nervous, having already come close to some of the local wildlife – as per the big-mouthed resident you may have noticed in the Windjana Gorge pictures. They're only freshies, but still...)
We finally hit the the tarmac again, only to find the Van had lost its number plate somewhere on the bumpy corrugations. Hopefully, that was the only bit of the car that we lost on the road less travelled.
Perhaps we should have travelled by camel instead.
Cheers, from the Happy Campers.
