The last blog titled Derby went too long, sorry. I was going to write about Derby next time we had service, but that may be at the eastern end of the Gibb River Road in two or three weeks time, and then I'll have a heap more to write about. So I thought I had better write before we leave. We had no expectations for Derby, it is smaller than Broome with a population of around 4500, half of these they say are Aboriginal. Derby certainly has a long connection wit...

From Marble Bar we had no idea of which way we wanted to head, the lady in the museum had suggested heading up through Shay Gap, the town is now closed, but she said it was a nice drive and that we could probably camp on the DeGrey river before Shay Gap. So our first point of interest to stop at was Coppin Gap. This turned out to be a lovely gap through the mountains with quite a large pool of water in it. Here we only found an elderly couple that were retired f...