DSC_0009.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. A few kilometres out of town is the old Myall's Bore originally built in 1910, and feeds the 120 metre long Cattle Trough, built around 1917, to water up to 500 animals on their way to Derby for shipping. Water is now pumped up by the windmill.
DSC_0010.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. A nice symmetrical Boab on the approach to the Derby Highway junction.
06DerbyHorFalls4.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. At the Wharfinger House Museum and coincidentally we arrived during the annual Boab Festival.
DSC_0016.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. 'Jump-Up' landscape on the approach to the Derby Highway junction.
DSC_0053.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. R.M.Williams was everywhere.
DSC_0026.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Wattle on the approach to the Derby Highway junction.
08Derby6.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. We caught only two Green Mud Crabs in Half Mile Creek.
06DerbyHorFalls9.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. Derby jetty and some of the Salt Flats.
06DerbyHorFalls.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. A Red-Winged Parrot at the Kimberley Entrance.
DSC_0007.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. A few kilometres out of town is the historic 'Old Prison Tree' where prisoners were reputedly kept while on their way to the Derby Goal.
DSC_0015a.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. Old Derby Goal.
DSC_0018.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. 'Jump-Up' landscape on the approach to the Derby Highway junction.
06DerbyHorFalls5.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. Photographs from the 1950s in the Museum's telecommunications room.
DSC_0052.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. Our stop for a few days was at the Kimberley Entrance.
05Derby2.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Boabs on the approach to the Derby Highway junction.
07Derby.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. The Old Derby Goal.
DSC_0018a.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. We spotted this large crocodile in Half Mile Creek.
DSC_0014.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Approaching the Derby Highway junction.
DSC_0023.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. Commonly named the Bottle Tree, this Boab has a distinct bottle shape.
DSC_0032crop.jpg=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. At the Derby Highway junction stands this huge tree.
DSC_0011.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. An early image of chained Aboriginals at the Old Derby Goal.
DSCN1178.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. Half Mile Creek drains into King Sound.
06DerbyHorFalls8.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. Outside the Museum is the Old Woolshed and the beginnings of the Old Tramway project. The tramway existed to carry supplies to and from the old wharf.
DSC_0014a.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. The Old Derby Goal has a harsh history of Aboriginal incarceration.
DSC_0025.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. At the Wharfinger House Museum, this dugout canoe is believed to have come from Sunday Island and was found in the Derby Marshes.
DSC_0017.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. 'Jump-Up' landscape on the approach to the Derby Highway junction.
06DerbyHorFalls1.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. The two halves of a traditional Double Raft or Galwa of the West Kimberley region.
08Derby5.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. A Brahminy Kite on King Sound.
08DerbyPan01.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. After having our crab pots in King Sound for a while without success, we went into 'Half Mile Creek'. (panorama)
DSC_0034a.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. Control panel from the old airport control tower at the Wharfinger House Museum.
DSC_0004.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. A Brahminy Kite on King Sound - even though we were only drifting, he didn't let us get too close.
06DerbyHorFalls6.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. Phones and switchboards in the Museum's telecommunications room.
DSC_0020.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. Old Derby Goal.
05DerbyPan02.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. Back to put our boat in at Derby's main boat ramp (on an incoming tide) for some fishing and crabbing at King Sound.
08Derby4.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. Just on dark, back at the Kimberley Entrance hundreds of screeching Corellas perched directly above our M/H and boat - the camera's flash scared them off though, so we mightn't get too much droppings overnight.
06DerbyHorFalls3.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. Near the jetty is the Wharfinger House Museum.
DSC_0015.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. 'Jump-Up' landscape on the approach to the Derby Highway junction.
DSC_0019.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. Steel rings concreted into the floor at the Old Derby Goal - used to chain the prisoners.
DSC_0034.JPG=Great Northern Highway, Western Australia. At the Derby Highway junction stands this huge tree.
06DerbyPan02.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. Derby jetty. (panorama)
08Derby7.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. This large crocodile in Half Mile Creek seems to have his territory near a small side creek. Picture at the bottom right is his 'slide'.
05DerbyPan03.JPG=Derby, Western Australia. First job is to check the boat ramp. It has to be good because on the day we're going out it will be a 10.3 metre high tide. (panorama)
06DerbyHorFalls2.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. Pencil sketches from the 1950s at the Wharfinger House Museum.
06DerbyHorFalls10.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. Derby's main street has many Boab trees - we're standing near the one in the top left and it is massive. The picture on the right is of 'the friendliest trees in the west' - where a Boab and a Snappy Gum have enfolded themselves together and have interlocking canopies.
06DerbyHorFalls7.jpg=Derby, Western Australia. Museum's telecommunications room.
