Sunrise (5).JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Next morning with the sun starting to rise in the East at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout.
DSC_0013a.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. The old 'Crossing Inn'
Ellendale (5).JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. After setting up at  Ellendale, we just relaxed watching the fauna - and a bright coloured butterfly resting a while on our M/H.
03FitzroyXing5.jpg=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Another solitary Blue/Grey Heron (?) like the one we saw on the Victoria river, NT.
DSC_0091.JPG=Warnum, Western Australia - Termite and vandal resistant Telstra phone booths at the Turkey Creek roadhouse.
DSC_0011a.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. the Spinifex was bent over on this very windy morning.
DSC_0001.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. The large cattle properties are mostly unfenced, so roaming animals can be dangerous with high speed traffic - most dangerous to traffic at night though when they can be attracted to the warmth of the bitumen road.
DSC_0029b.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. The steep concrete appraoch to the old 'Fitzroy river Crossing' causeway.
26GNHtoHallsCkPan07.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. Just out of town is the 'China Wall', a natural rock formation that looks like a man-made wall. (panorama)
DSC_0141.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. Tree struggling to grow in the rock at the billabong/creekbed.
DSC_0153.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. The shops and businesses are all inside buildings that look more like secure sheds - not real inviting.
DSC_0152crop.jpg=Halls Creek, Western Australia. One of the unfortunate sides of Aboriginal communities in many of the towns we've visited in Qld, NT and WA. In Halls Creek the local community have made the decision to restrict takeaway sales to 2.7% maximum alcohol content.
27GNHtoFitzroyCrossPan06.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout. (panorama)
01FitzroyXingPan03.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Sunrise looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout. (panorama)
Collages.jpg=A comparison of some of the Termite Mounds across the north. Clockwise from the top left, 1 & 2 are in North Queensland and we thought they were big. 3 & 4 are Northern Territory monsters. 5 is also NT but this time is the 'magnetic termite mound'. And number 6 is a very different structure in the Kimberleys area of Western Australia.
DSC_0037a.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Towering rock formations at Geikie Gorge.
DSC_0087.JPG=Vehicle waiting at another of the single lane bridge on the Great Northern Highway.
Sunrise (4).JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Next morning with the sun starting to rise in the East at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout.
DSC_0014.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
DSC_0023.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. The old 'Crossing Inn'.
03FitzroyXing9.jpg=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Some trees undermined by floodwaters upstream from the old 'Fitzroy river Crossing' causeway.
04ToDerby9.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. After setting up at  Ellendale, we just relaxed watching the fauna - Doves
02FitzroyXing1.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. A construction crew at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout, struggling to get the Road Train out over a soft slope . (panorama)
DSC_0135.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. Similar rock beside the 'China Wall'
03FitzroyXingPan01.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Beside the Fitzroy river bridge. (panorama)
Sunset (15).JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Later in the day and approaching sunset looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout.
DSC_0012a.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. the Spinifex was bent over on this very windy morning, giving the cliff top a lovely soft appearance in spite of the spiky grasses.
27GNHtoFitzroyCrossPan02.JPG=Not far outside Halls Creek, Western Australia. (panorama)
27GNHtoFitzroyCross1.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Ngumpan Cliff Lookout;  spinifex plants turning a blue grey colour as they dry out.
DSC_0011.JPG=As we leave Kununurra, we have a reasonable drive to Halls Creek but we make one stopover after (Joy's turn) driving 200km.
02FitzroyXingPan10.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Flooding of the Fitzroy river has created this permanent sandbar at Geikie Gorge. (panorama)
DSC_0040.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
26GNHtoHallsCk1.jpg=Crossing a drying Durham River on the Great Northern Highway.
01FitzroyXingPan00.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Next morning with the sun starting to rise in the East at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout. (panorama)
Sunset (14).JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Later in the day and approaching sunset looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout.
DSC_0109.JPG=Western Australia - on the Great Northern Highway, more 'Nomads'.
04ToDerb.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. After setting up at  Ellendale, we just relaxed watching the fauna - Minors
04ToDerby5.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. After setting up at  Ellendale, we just relaxed watching the fauna - This Minor decide to perch on our satellite dish.
DSC_0019a.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. As we leave westward from Ngumpan Cliff, we drove through the last of the red escarpment through and into the grassy flat plains.
DSC_0147.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. At the 'China Wall'.
DSC_0070.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
DSC_0043.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Towering rock formations at Geikie Gorge.
DSC_0108.JPG=Western Australia - on the Great Northern Highway, Leycesters Rest - Ord River.
04ToDerby7.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Ellendale Rest Area about 150km s/w of Derby.
27GNHtoFitzroyCrossPan01a.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Not far from the station homestead - a very flat area obviously ideal for cattle. Joy was driving this stretch and a huge bull gave us a fright feeding at the very edge of the road. (panorama)
03FitzroyXing.jpg=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. We bought a couple of decorated Boab nuts from local artists at the old 'Crossing Inn'. Actually beforehand, we went into the hotel and found that there was an extensive art gallery/sales.
DSCN1058.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Inside the Geikie Gorge information gazebo there are markers showing some flood level history.
DSC_0100.JPG=A majestic Boab near Lissadell station.
DSC_0010.JPG=One of the free roadside stopovers - this one on the outskirts of Kununurra.
DSC_0016.JPG=One of many single lane bridges on the Great Northern Highway.
26GNHtoHallsCkPan02.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra. (panorama)
DSC_0037.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
03FitzroyXingPan07.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Some trees undermined by floodwaters upstream from the old 'Fitzroy river Crossing' causeway. (panorama)
27GNHtoFitzroyCrossPan03.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Looking East at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout, with the highway on the left of picture. (panorama)
DSC_0044.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Towering rock formations at Geikie Gorge.
DSC_0049.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
DSC_0036.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Unusual rock formations at Geikie Gorge.
DSC_0052.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Geikie Gorge.
DSC_0045.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Towering rock formations at Geikie Gorge.
02FitzroyXingPan07.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Limestone rock formations at Geikie Gorge. (panorama)
03FitzroyXing8.jpg=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. We bought a couple of decorated Boab nuts from local artists. One carved and the other painted - hopefully we can take them across borders.
DSC_0090.JPG=Warnum, Western Australia - at the Turkey Creek roadhouse, metal Kangaroo sculpture (primarily a bicycle frame).
DSC_0140.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. Billabong/creekbed at the 'China Wall'.
27GNHtoFitzroyCrossPan13.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Sunset looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout. (panorama)
04ToDerby6.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. After setting up at  Ellendale, we just relaxed watching the fauna - Minors
DSC_0004.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. The Fitzroy river bridge.
03FitzroyXing1.jpg=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Gallery art at the old 'Crossing Inn'.
Sunrise (17).JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Sunrise colours looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout
DSC_0033a2.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Limestone rock formations at Geikie Gorge.
27GNHtoFitzroyCrossPan08.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Sunset looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout. (panorama)
DSC_0128.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. The 'China Wall'
03FitzroyXingPan05.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Downstream from the old 'Fitzroy river Crossing' causeway. (panorama)
26GNHtoHallsCk3.jpg=Warnum, Western Australia - after the Turkey Creek roadhouse, Joy had to get well over to allow a few of these trucks with wide load to get past on a not particularly wide road.
26GNHtoHallsCkPan04.JPG=Western Australia - on the Great Northern Highway, nearing Halls Creek. (panorama)
26GNHtoHallsCk2.jpg=Warnum, Western Australia - at the Turkey Creek roadhouse.
DSC_0025a.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. The old 'Crossing Inn' public bar rules.
26GNHtoHallsCk6.jpg=Halls Creek, Western Australia. The 'China Wall' is a well defined wall when viewed from the end.
27GNHtoFitzroyCrossPan04.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout. (panorama)
DSC_0071.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
DSC_0001a.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia - we have now left the Kimberley area and the country seems drier. Pretty hard/dry ground at our stopover at the Halls Creek Caravan Park.
DSC_0074.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
DSC_0033a1.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Limestone rock formations at Geikie Gorge.
DSC_0049a.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Ngumpan Cliff Lookout soon got quite crowded in the afternoon.
26GNHtoHallsCk5.jpg=Halls Creek, Western Australia. Art work on an outbuilding and an explanation of some of the Aboriginal symbols.
DSC_0002.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Relaxing in the shade after setting up at  Ellendale. This hat is useful for keeping the annoying little flies out of ear, nose and mouth.
27GNHtoFitzroyCross3.jpg=Not far outside Halls Creek, Western Australia. It isn't common to see a station homestead within sight of the main road. The termite mounds are the deep red colour of the surrounding soil.
DSC_0061.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
03FitzroyXingPan03.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Downstream Fitzroy River beside the old 'Crossing Inn'. (panorama)
DSC_0027b.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Upstream from Fitzroy Crossing is Geikie Gorge.
04ToDerby8.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. After setting up at  Ellendale, we just relaxed watching the fauna - Butcherbirds.
04ToDerby1.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. After setting up at  Ellendale, we just relaxed watching the fauna - Doves
DSC_0029.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
DSC_0144.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. Most unusual to find different coloured flowers on the same plant - at the 'China Wall'.
DSC_0027a.JPG=Not far outside Halls Creek, Western Australia.  Anywhere that traffic has driven from the bare ground onto the highway, the road surface has the same deep red colour.
26GNHtoHallsCkPan03.JPG=Western Australia - on the Great Northern Highway, a nice roadside stopover at Leycesters Rest - Ord River. (panorama)
DSC_0143.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. Billabong/creekbed at the 'China Wall'.
DSC_0056.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
DSC_0113.JPG=Western Australia - on the Great Northern Highway, nearing Halls Creek.
03FitzroyXingPan06.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Upstream from the old 'Fitzroy river Crossing' causeway. (panorama)
Sunrise (15).JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Sunrise colours looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout
DSC_0024a.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. The old 'Crossing Inn' public bar. Locked up with the metal screens after hours.
DSC_0017.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. As we leave westward from Ngumpan Cliff, we drove through the last of the red escarpment through and into the grassy flat plains.
DSC_0027.JPG=Many, many 'Nomad' travelling the Great Northern Highway.
DSC_0060.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
DSC_0096.JPG=Warnum, Western Australia - at the Turkey Creek roadhouse. This was a bit of entertainment - a mad tourist trying to get his picture taken with his arm on a bull. The bull wasn't having any of it and it didn't look happy. As they say "it's all good fun 'til some-one loses an eye".
03FitzroyXing10.jpg=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. The cinema at the old 'Crossing Inn'
26GNHtoHallsCk7.jpg=Halls Creek, Western Australia. Tree struggling to grow in the rock at the billabong/creekbed.
27GNHtoFitzroyCross.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Termite mounds here have a quite different structure to others that we had seen.
DSC_0055.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
27GNHtoFitzroyCrossPan11.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Sunset looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout. (panorama)
DSC_0139.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. Billabong/creekbed at the 'China Wall'.
DSC_0034.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
03FitzroyXingPan04.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Upstream Fitzroy River beside the old 'Crossing Inn'. (panorama)
DSC_0042.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. We made an early stop for the night at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout. Our boat looks a tad out of place here.
DSC_0051.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Geikie Gorge.
DSC_0117.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia - on the Great Northern Highway.
26GNHtoHallsCkPan01.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra. (panorama)
DSC_0013.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. As we leave westward from Ngumpan Cliff, we drove through the last of the red escarpment through and into the grassy flat plains.
01FitzroyXingPan04.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Sunrise looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout. (panorama)
DSC_0058.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
DSC_0138.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. Billabong at the 'China Wall'
DSC_0016a.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. As we leave westward from Ngumpan Cliff, we drove through the last of the red escarpment through and into the grassy flat plains.
DSC_0030.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Eerie looking trees with climbing vines at Geikie Gorge.
DSC_0016b.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. After setting up at  Ellendale, we just relaxed watching the fauna - Doves in this tree - the encircling vine looked very much like a snake stalking the birds.
DSC_0078.JPG=A drying Durham River on the Great Northern Highway, but the flattened trees give evidence of strong flood waters.
DSC_0059.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
DSC_0036a.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. The old 'Fitzroy river Crossing' causeway. About 150 metres across.
26GNHtoHallsCk.jpg=As we leave Kununurra, we cross the Ord River Diversion Dam.
DSC_0028.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. We see many abandoned vehicles like this rollover and they are soon stripped of anything of value.
01FitzroyXingPan01a.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Sunrise colours looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout, and a road train on the highway. (panorama)
DSC_0012.JPG=Still in the Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
26GNHtoHallsCk4.jpg=Halls Creek, Western Australia. Two statues at the visitor centre. One was of a man in the 1850's,  'Russian Jack' pushing his injured mate 300 kms in a wheelbarrow for help.\
The other of a local Aborigine, Jack Jugarie.
26GNHtoHallsCkPan06.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. Billabong/creekbed at the 'China Wall'. (panorama)
27GNHtoFitzroyCrossPan01.JPG=Not far outside Halls Creek, Western Australia. An unusual break in the escarpment. (panorama)
DSC_0129.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. The 'China Wall'
DSC_0029a.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. On an as yet unsealed section, the deep red soil is apparent.
02FitzroyXing2.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Near Fitzroy Crossing - unusual bushes with a striking Wattle-like flower.
DSC_0008.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Fitzroy River beside the old 'Crossing Inn'.
DSC_0033.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
27GNHtoFitzroyCrossPan05.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout. (panorama)
03FitzroyXingPan02.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Beside the Fitzroy river bridge. (panorama)
DSC_0025.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Crossing the almost dry, Margaret River.
DSC_0028a.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Limestone rock formations at Geikie Gorge.
02FitzroyXingPan09.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Towering rock formations at Geikie Gorge. (panorama)
01FitzroyXingPan05.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Sunrise looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout. (panorama)
04ToDerby11.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. After setting up at  Ellendale, we just relaxed watching the fauna - Doves
DSC_0024.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
DSC_0020.JPG=Not far outside Halls Creek, Western Australia. Break in the escarpment.
05Derby1.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Next morning and we're about to leave  Ellendale - this dog is patiently waiting for breakfast. The roadside rest areas are handy for people with pets because only a few caravan parks allow them, and pets aren't allowed in any national park at all.
27GNHtoFitzroyCrossPan12.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Sunset looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout. (panorama)
DSC_0088.JPG=Termite mounds around the southern boundary marker for Lissadell station.
DSC_0015.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. As we leave westward from Ngumpan Cliff, we drove through the last of the red escarpment through and into the grassy flat plains.
02FitzroyXingPan08.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Limestone rock formations at Geikie Gorge. (panorama)
DSC_0019.JPG=Kimberley area driving south on the Great Northern Highway from Kununurra.
27GNHtoFitzroyCrossPan07.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Sunset looking West at Ngumpan Cliff Lookout. (panorama)
DSC_0083.JPG=Obviously an entry to an (un-named) Aboriginal location on the Great Northern Highway.
DSCN1057.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Inside the Geikie Gorge information gazebo there are markers showing some flood level history - a few where it was completely submerged.
03FitzroyXing11.jpg=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. This small pack of stray dogs was a concern for a while but they kept to themselves.
DSC_0055a.JPG=Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Annual monsoonal flooding in the Fitzroy river has created this permanent sandbar at Geikie Gorge.
26GNHtoHallsCkPan05.JPG=Halls Creek, Western Australia. Billabong/creekbed at the 'China Wall'. (panorama)
