Darwin to Broome in Western Australia

We left Darwin and headed off to Western Australia. We had to stop and declare our fruit and veg at the border. There is a war against the fruit fly!

We drove across the Kimberley, one of the remotest parts of the world and it was very hot reaching 41C - phew!!!

We decided to do a flight over the World Heritage site The Bungle Bungle as it's a very inaccessible place. Here are some photos of Lake Argyle, the largest man-made lake in the southern hemisphere and the Bungles. We also flew over the largest diamond mine in the world but this wasn't quite as picturesque.




This is a glimpse into what we saw for 3 days. There is hundreds of Kms between towns that have about 100 people living in them.


Along the way we saw lots of Boab trees - they luck a bit like people! Some of them are huge and very old (1000 years old in some cases). Some of the hollowed out ones were used as prisons when transporting convicts around.


Here we are watching yet another amazing sunset this time over the Indian Ocean. We were so excited to reach the coast after finally driving right across Oz. We're now half way through and we've driven 20,000 km.

The thing to do in Broome is a camel ride on Cable Beach, so that is what we did. We got up early and wandered up and down the white sand 'nudist' beach on top of Horris, the alpha male. Luckily there was only one nudist and he was laid on his front! The camels are trained by Chris Hill (not Nic's brother).

This is a picture of me with a rather grumpy camel. He must have had the 'hump'! (sorry)