El Questro Wilderness Park, East Kimberley´s

The landscape is so divers, from rugged ranges and broad tidal flats, to rainforest pockets, gorges and waterfalls. You feel a sense of discovery at every turn.
An absolutely unique place and definitive my favourite Gorge.

El Questro Gorge

This Gorge is packed with stunning things, massive Rocks to climb, wild grown Palm trees, some smaller pools in between which u have to cross if u want to go till the end where u will finally find the pictured perfectly pool with a gorgeous waterfall. It’s so damn worth it, climbing these 2 hours till the end.
Having a swim in the pool was awesome and we took the chance for a shower underneath the waterfall.
It felt a little bit like walking through a painted Paradise, absolutely speechless

Emma Gorge

High walls, deep waterfall and a 10 ° cold pool but still felt awesome to swim in such amazing pool, especially the hot springs hidden in one corner.

Gibb River Road, Kimberley´s

We tried to get to the Mitchell Plateau but had to stop a few km before, on a small but deep stream . We walked through it but we didn´t wanted to risk Antony´s car again. We could have made it but they told us behind this stream comes another mud-stream and a lot of cars get sucked there. So this time we only watched other cars passing.

But walked trough it and discovered some old rock paintings on the other side of the stream in a wood where we walked around and lost Rob, couldn´t find him at all. It was a little bit scary and we´ve nearly done the “Blair witch” movie Part 3.

While refuelling we chatted with 2 random guys about the road and the upcoming bigger river we have to cross later. It was good to know that these guys were half an hour behind us ( the dust ) because at midnight we had a flat tire. And no tools. So we just waited half an hour and they kindly helped us with the spare tire.

Pentecost River, East Kimberly´s

A 150 m wide river, knee-deep and saltwater crocs.
In the background u have the wonderful view of the Cockburn Range.

Kimberley National Park, Western Australia, June 2006

I can´t find the right words to describe the Kimberly Area, incredible, unbelievable or gorgeous were still understated, I am not overstating. It´s a huge Park (3 times of England would fit into it ) full of spectacular Waterfalls and Gorges, unsealed Roads, strange formatted Boab Trees and hidden Springs.
Plenty of things to discover astonish you.
You can spent a lot of time here but it´s only possible to drive the Gibb River Road, which leads 700 km across the park, in the dry season (may – October ).


Boab Prison Tree, Derby


In 1890 they used this tree as a prison for Aboriginal people. It has got a perimeter of 14 meters!

The Australian Aboriginal legend of the Boab Tree:

"When the tree God created the Boab Tree it was to be the most beautiful of all trees in the universe, with the most beautiful flowers and bearing the juiciest fruit. But as the tree grew to maturity its flowers were mediocre and its fruit had a bad odour and tasted vile. The Tree God became so angry that he yanked the Boab out of the ground and slammed it back in the earth upside down and that is why today, when you see a Boab tree, it looks as if its roots are growing up in the air."

I just Love these Trees so much.

Windjana Gorge, Kimberly

A favourite place to see some freshwater croc´s sunbathing in the early morning.

Tunnel Gorge

This tunnel is nearly 1 km long and some parts filled with water, knee-deep, and some gorgeous stone formations. You need a light if you wanna go through and we discovered some blind shrimps in the water. Poor guys, living in such a nice area and they can’t see it at all.
We searched for some aboriginal paintings at the end of the tunnel, climbed up some big rocks and chased some huge bats out of a cave. Awesome.

Lennard Gorge, Kimberly

Spent most of the day here, jumped a hundred times in the waterfall, trying to get the best figure. We had lots of fun.

Bell Gorge, Kimberly

Sometimes you underrate the time to your destination, we went to Bell Gorge for the sunset which was beautiful, but running back in the dark wasn´t that healthy for our ankle joints.

Broome, Western Australia

Broome, Western Austrlia

We drove past Port Headland, the long 80 mile Beach and some big bushfires until we finally got to Broome.
The first thing we visited was the car wash.

Then we drove to the famous Cable Beach, watched some camel parades and the boys had a swim while slowly the sun disappeared on the horizon. I bought a very warm sleeping bag and we had a great dinner, all you can eat buffet. I guess Antony ate all mussels.

Nearly 4000 km were have done already and I cant wait to see my favourite destination: The Kimberly´s.

Karijini Nationalpark, Western Australia

More than 600 km till the next stop, in between nothing but cows and dead kangaroos on the street.
We got to the mining town Tom Price after midnight and camped somewhere.
It´s quite a weird place but as the sun came up we already got an impression what to expect.
The trucks here were huuuge, about 50 m long (the boys always made fun of me cause I got excited about them ) the train has got 100 trailers loaded with iron in it and the jeeps are monstrous.

The area is incredible, it´s red everywhere with some green bushes and hundreds of termite hills.
In the background you see some small mountains.

The park is famous for his amazing Gorges, waterfalls and swimming pools. Some dirt tracks are crossing through the park and we made our way to the ghost town Wittenoom.

Wittenoom, Karjini NP

Officially, this town side is removed. There are still 10 inhabitants, living without electricity.
It once was a very busy asbestos mine area but the risk of dying got to high and they relocated all the workers and closed the mine.
Sometimes you see signs with “don’t open the window – asbestos “ in the area.
But we wanted to see the town and visited the tourist centre. Found some funny souvenirs.

We got a map and searched for the Gorges we wanted to visit, and discovered a shortcut.
Should this be right or wrong, is this road closed or not?
We didn´t know so we followed the track through a beautiful and lonely little George. After 20 km the way got very small and hidden so we made a little break on a stream to enjoy the nature.

The way turned into stones, grass and some smaller streams , bigger streams and finally we were lost. It was such a high risk to cross all these streams without seeing the end or knowing how deep they are but it was an amazing adventure. I have to mention that we couldn’t reach the tools for the spare tire, so in case something would happen; we have to walk 20 km to the next road.

We also came past some old mines, I really hope it wasn’t the main mine cause of the high presence of asbestos.
After a while we decided to go back and nearly got lost again in the streams, without knowing where the way is. Crazy. The car just got repaired!

But we finally made it, got back on the main road and fantasised what would have happened IF…

Hancock Gorge, Karjini

This Gorge is incredible and offers everything you need,
Climbing and swimming in between unique rock formations.
On the way we had to leave more and more clothes otherwise they would have fallen with me, in the cold water while climbing.

Kermit´s Pool

Good Bye Karijini, it was nice to meet you.