Where ever I may roam

After a long drive, with minimal stops, we arrived at El Questro from Bennett River Gorge. I was not impressed with the entry fee, $17.50 each and then an additional $17 each for camping. I hope that the price will be worth it when we check out the sights tomorrow. The pass itself is valid for one week, which seems a bit useless to me as there is nowhere else to stay around here unless you drive from Wyndham.

Yesterday was crammed with activities, visiting Bell gorge in the morning and having a swim in the waterfalls.

We ran into a bunch of Cindy’s friends from Broome who were on a 8 day trip of the Gibb. After a bit of lazing around in the water we hiked back to the car and headed off. We called in at Imitji to ring for permission to enter Adcock gorge. While there I passed on a ‘Hi’ to the store owners from Vinka, my old boss in Broome, who was there earlier in the year catering for 400+ cyclists riding the Gibb (crazy).

Adcock Gorge was amazing and worth the somewhat difficult drive to get to it. We spent some time just sitting and taking in the sights from a cave under a waterfall which was overlooking a pool. I was to busy enjoying it to get many photos. We also stopped at Galvins Gorge along the way but it wasn’t worth it. We continued to Barnett River Gorge where we ran into Cindy’s friends again and camped the night in a big group. It was fun sitting around the camp fire with a bunch of people, chatting the night away.

In the end I decided to not go to Mitchell Falls for several reasons. I’d heard that the road to it was ‘rough as guts’ and I didn’t like the idea of driving ~450km on really bad roads. A few people had told me that the falls were still spectacular, although quite dry as it is the wrong time of season to be going up there. I will go at some stage but I’ll do some better planning and research first and find the best time to go.

Tomorrow looks to be quite busy as there are many sights in El Questro, however if we spend almost the whole day looking at them there is a free camp site a reasonable distance from here so the travel will be small.