We arrived here 'round lunch time on Friday. By the time we'd set up, we figured we'd spoken to more people in this tiny park than we spoke to in just under two weeks in Broome. It's proven to be a great choice of parks-small, friendly, and well run by the couple who just bought it.
We have a can recycle bin right by our van and spoke to a man as he dropped a couple of cans in it. It turns out he grew up in Warragul (his parents owned the Orient Hotel for many years) and he and I knew a lot of people in common. He is also really good friends with my last boss at the Vic Hotel in Warrnambool Graeme Welsh, so we gave him a ring to tell him we'd met! The two of them worked together in Consumer Affairs in Melbourne for 18 years.
Windjana Gorge
Saturday we took a tour out along the Gibb River Road to Windjana Gorge and Tunnel Creek. We were collected at 8am and arrived back at 7.30pm, so it was a big day out. Tunnell Creek is 184ks from town and 120 of that was along unsealed corrugated road in one of those trucks they convert into a bus. I was lucky to travel up front with the driver in a well sprung seat so got the best view and the comfiest ride! It was a fantastic tour-both places are incredibly interesting and very pretty. The gorge is just that-a gorge, but the colours in the rock are beautiful and we spotted lots and lots of fresh water crocs along the creek banks.
Only A Freshy, but Wasn't I Brave?
Tunnel Creek is a 750 metre long tube through the ancient reef It has limestone formations on the roof where flood water doesn't reach and scour them away in the wet. We loved the fact it's a bit of a climb over huge rocks of jasper into the cave, then it's unlit throughout. We had to carry torches and wade through the creek so it was lots of fun and really beautiful, but really unspoilt. The bus company provided morning and afternoon tea and a pretty good lunch and lots of drinking water, juice tea and coffee so it was a good day out. 4 couples from this park went along, so we've met plenty of the 20 couples staying here.
Tunnel Creek
Yesterday we had a lazy day sitting chatting to Brendan and Karen in the morning, then taking a stroll around the jetty to check out the huge tides in the afternoon. We finished the day with a drive out to the prison boab tree and a wander around the old town common. Last night we barbequed our dinner and sat out eating with a few people. Honestly it is so much friendlier than our park in Broome was!
Derby Jetty
Today we are off out for a look at May Creek then after lunch we are going to go looking for mud crabs.
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