EL QUESTRO STATION Situated approximately 50km from Kununurra- Gibb River Road turnoff, just off the top end of the Gibb River Road is the 1 million acre property known as El Questro, which is owned by a family in the USA. For 7 months of the year, this beef cattle property is open for the tourism trade also. After obtaining a wilderness permit, day visits for tours, walks, horse riding or camping are the go. It's quite a set up, I must say!! Ranging from $3000 ...

KUNUNURRA- MARLGU BILLABONG-WYNDHAM We had two rest days in Kununurra, time to restock supplies, check out the Saturday Farmers Market and find some local gems like, Honey from the Boab tree! We spent the day moseying about town, visited a SiltStone Gallery which had amazing specimens of Ribbonstone, Zebra rock, Okapi, Astronomite and Ning Bing. These rocks are formed by sediment accumulation, and evaporation of layers of rock fragments, plant and animal materia...

JUDBARRA GREGORY NATIONAL PARK- ZEBRA ROCK-KEEP RIVER NATIONAL PARK-KUNUNURRA 190km west of Katherine along the Victoria Hwy, is Victoria River Roadhouse a great little place to stop over for a wander along the Escarpment and climb to spectacular views of the Victoria River- definitely no swimming here though kids! Finally we have spotted our first Boab Tree!!! They are strange yet beautiful, some 2000yrs old, and unfortunately many of the large ones we've see...

MATARANKA-BITTER SPRINGS-KATHERINE- NITMILUK NATIONAL PARK From Devils Marbles we headed north toward Katherine. Over night we heard about the thermal Roper River and swimming hole at Bitter Springs just east of Mataranka- which was well worth the visit. Mataranka itself has a more commercialized thermal pools set up at the Homestead campground- for those townies that aren't too keen on swimming with all the natural elements. We on the other hand, hot footed it...

ECHUCA-MILDURA-BURRA-COOBER PEDY-ALICE SPRINGS On the road again after a pause in Victoria, which enabled us to attend more Divine Truth seminars and for Paige to complete her Chiro registration requirements for the year. Whilst here we celebrated Kerry's birthday and saw an amazing musical "MOONSHADOW", a mystical, fantasy that cleverly weaves Cat Stevens music and lyrics throughout! It was truly fabulous- and Yusuf has been bold enough to portray many themes a...