Westward Bound

It's hard to believe that we are into the second month of our adventure already. We left Kununurra a few days ago now and have covered a lot of klm's and some magnificent sights as always. The top end of Australia is very dry this time of the year but still very beautiful. You have to like traveling long distances because that's just how it is. After Kununurra we booked into a caravan park just off the highway so we were close to the Bungle Bungles. The next morning, not sure what day that was, we were up at five thirty to beat the traffic into the National Park to where the rock formations were. Lunch packed, plenty of water, tyre pressures dropped to 25Psi and off we went. Wasn't far before we hit the corrugations in the road. About half a Klm out the front gate. With the morning sunrise just breaking through shining in our eyes and making things more hazardous especially as we were eating someone else dust until I dropped back some distance. Fifty three Kms of corrugations, rocks & dust we arrived at the visitors centre. Permit in hand it was another thirty kms of the same before we reach our destination. With a quick check to see that our teeth were still in place it was backpack filled with the essentials and off we trekked. There was four main attractions to visit on this side of the Bungle Bungles. All in all we trekked about seven kms over rocks, along sandy river beds and up/down numerous steps. The sights were well worth the effort but we were both fairly stuffed by the time we got back to camp. It was only fifty three kms to get to the park but took two hours either way. That will tell how rough it was.

Last night we had a planned stop at a roadside stop between Halls Creek and Fitrzory. Just prior to leaving I was talking to a guy (so all travellers do) that was heading the same way. He  mentioned a place called Bimbi Caves & Caravan park. I thought that sounds good. So off we went. Turns out it was a campsite run by an indigenous community and you were supposed to register online before entering. Not me. Didn't know. Not guilty your honour, didn't know. We got there set up in a beautiful setting and watched the sun go down over the surrounding mountain range. Janine was concerned for quite a while that a park ranger would come along and tell us to leave. All good as no one showed up and we had a free camp with our own little fire pit. There were other campers around and hopefully they payed and made up for our oversight. There is no sleeping in around here so up early and hit the road again. Were planning a another free camp tonight (4/8/19) but made good time and pushed through to Derby a day early. Quite day tomorrow.
PS: The bull must be a regular visitor as he just strolled in amongst the caravans and helped himself to some greenery.