After the trip to Emma Gorge we travelled to one of the Kimberley's large cattle stations where we spent the night. It's huge - 3.5 million acres (1.4 million Ha.) and now in the hands of the local Aboriginal community. And, like many of the region's large farming properties it has tourist accommodation.
Our accommodation was located in some impressive scenery and was comfortable.
You can see Dot, below left, in the garden area around where had our meal. And nearby there were many relics of past agricultural activity on the property.
And as dusk enveloped us we watched the surrounding countryside slowly darken and grow redder. And the setting sun made the thin layer of cloud sparkle
By the way, Home Valley had some lovely Baobabs:
The following day saw us on the road again, but much of the countryside was not so spectacular.
It was flatter, criss-crossed by many creeks and waterholes, and a little sparser in vegetation.
Road conditions frequently worsened as our bus tried to cross some of the creeks and, at one point, one of its tyres was punctured, as shown below. And members of our tour group assisted our driver to replace it withe spare we fortunately had with us - hidden underneath the back of the bus:
The whole task took quite a while, as readers can quite imagine. My role was more that of official photographer and I left the dirty work to those who knew something about changing tyres. Our driver, , must have experienced a few such tyre changes and remained composed.
That task completed we headed to Galvans Gorge, home to an attractive waterfall and swimming hole ... not that I took the opportunity on this occasion. And we saw a few more lovely baobabs.
One could haul a raft to the opposite bank with these ropes.
AS
Our accommodation was located in some impressive scenery and was comfortable.
You can see Dot, below left, in the garden area around where had our meal. And nearby there were many relics of past agricultural activity on the property.
And as dusk enveloped us we watched the surrounding countryside slowly darken and grow redder. And the setting sun made the thin layer of cloud sparkle
By the way, Home Valley had some lovely Baobabs:
The following day saw us on the road again, but much of the countryside was not so spectacular.
It was flatter, criss-crossed by many creeks and waterholes, and a little sparser in vegetation.
Road conditions frequently worsened as our bus tried to cross some of the creeks and, at one point, one of its tyres was punctured, as shown below. And members of our tour group assisted our driver to replace it withe spare we fortunately had with us - hidden underneath the back of the bus:
The whole task took quite a while, as readers can quite imagine. My role was more that of official photographer and I left the dirty work to those who knew something about changing tyres. Our driver, , must have experienced a few such tyre changes and remained composed.That task completed we headed to Galvans Gorge, home to an attractive waterfall and swimming hole ... not that I took the opportunity on this occasion. And we saw a few more lovely baobabs.
One could haul a raft to the opposite bank with these ropes.
AS
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