Gibb River Rd to Broome

The Road to Kalumburu certainly did not improve on the way out, thank goodness the silicone held on the fuel tank.

What can we say about the rest of the Gibb River Road to Derby. The road was incredibly rough, corrugated with large bulldust washouts. We did many small hikes leading to beautiful gorges and waterfalls where we swam. How six years have made a difference. The Kimberley's felt remote and secluded back then, and this trip we were surprised to find how busy it had become.

There is now a boat you can take
your gear over
at the start to Manning Gorge

Manning Gorge

Adcock Gorge

Bells Gorge

Galvan's Gorge

This is for our wonderful boys. I have to say I was tricked by Gene who asked me to bring the GoPro up to video him jumping. Once up there I wasn't sure what was scarier, jumping or climbing back down. Adam did a perfect DIVE off this last time !!

The Boys in 2009 - Bells Gorge

BROOME

Cable Beach Caravan Park had big sites, most in the shade with clean modern facilities and best of all a short walk to the beach. We were no longer at the busiest time of the year so we thought getting a caravan site would be easy however we found on calling around before arriving some parks were still full. Even where we stayed every site was taken and filled up the minute someone left. Average cost for caravan site for 2 in Broome we found was $52 per night.

We were looking forward to fishing, so the wait we had before the fuel tank could be replaced was of no concern, until we found the wind report for the next 4 days was blowing hard. Now we had more experience in fishing we decided to invest in a little more boating and fishing equipment. Still determined to fish we set up boat, rods and waited.

New safety gear

Honey I caught a cow.

We would walk down to Cable Beach to swim, where the water was turquoise and crystal clear.

Cable Beach

On day three we were able to get into the water in the morning so launched the boat on the northern side of the rocks at Cable Beach. Apparently we needed to be about 23kms out to catch the fish, which was out of the question with the winds and size of our tinny. We caught 4 Barracuda, whilst trolling out the front. Catch and release as too many bones for us.