darwin heading west road trip
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 10 September 2011 | Views [519] | Comments [1]
So after my trip to the national parks around Darwin were amazing also I got to spend a lot of time walking around Darwin and made it out to Mindle beach to see their weekly beach markets. The markets had everything in them from performer to every type of food you could want to try lots of Asian and also a few good BBQ areas where they had many different types of meat. I had already tried kangaroo and buffalo which were both very good so I tried crocodile which I am not sure if I got the right skewer because it really tasted like chicken. Well maybe a bit different but didn’t have the strong flavour like buffalo or kangaroo. From Darwin I got on with a group of people driving all the way to Perth with stops on the way to see the sights. I will admit that at points I got very frustrated by them as we were camping the whole time and I don’t believe any of them had had previous camping experiences before going to Australia so were pretty unprepared. But I made it through also they had never driven a car on anything but paved roads so were sometimes not the most willing to take it onto the dirt roads but by the end of it I had shown them that the dirt roads were mainly well maintained so we got to see a lot more than they would have without this. But we still couldn’t go to some of the more remote areas from Darwin through the Kimberly’s as some were not even open to 4wd trucks. But we saw an incredible amount of things. We did have to miss out on wolf creek crater and to see the true bungle bungles as the roads were both only open to 4wd trucks which sucked. We did stop at a couple of national parks along the way. Just along the border to Western Australia we stopped to see Lake Argyle and also went to see a zebra rock mine which is only found in that part of Australia. Zebra rock is a type of rock that has striped patterns running through it some of the art they had done with it was amazing. Lake Argyle is a lake that is bigger than the Sydney harbour. At every stop for the day and night I would go and talk to our neighbours at the campsites and figured out where we would want to see as our group had no clue what to see so this is how we found out about some of the stops like going to see the zebra rock mine. After lake argyle we stopped in Kununurra, Wyndham, halls creek, Fitzroy crossing and derby before leaving the Kimberly’s to stop at broome. At all of these stops there were some amazing walking tracks that allowed us to see various stages of the Kimberly’s as well as to see some great stone formations and gorges. As I said we were not able to go see the real bungle bungles or the wolf creek crater or do the Gibb river road but even still there was not a day that we didn’t see something to take your breath away and to see some of the wildlife up close. In derby we got to see the world’s second highest tides, (next to the bay of fundy). But by this time we were ready to start a new adventure closer to the ocean. So this is how we made it to broome. Now broome is not a large city by any means I believe that it is roughly 16000 people but after travelling for so long without seeing a community larger than 1000 people we were needless to say very happy to see civilization. We took in the various sites of broome but spent most of our time either on the city beach or on cable beach which has amazing blue water and white sand that stretches on and on. When we got there we were roped in to stand for a no gas protest where we spelled out no gas so aerial photos could be taken but in doing so we also got a free place to camp for the night so it was worth it. I had fun doing a little bit of body surfing but the waves were not the best so mainly just swam and relaxed in the water.it was so nice to do after doing so much driving and hiking during the last week. Also with the knowledge that we would be doing some pretty long drives to get to our upcoming destinations of karijini and Kalbarri national parks along with Exmouth and coral bay and monkey mi and shark bay. But the nice long relaxing stay on the beach was welcome and having that great backdrop for some amazing sunsets on the west coast
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