Category: Australia 2022

A 16-day epic exploration of Australia visiting Broome, Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek, Emma Gorge, Kununurra, Katherine, Darwin, Alice Springs, Coober Peddy, and Adelaide covering Western Australia, the Northern Territory and South Australia between 19 August and 3 September 2022.

  • Friday 26 August 2022.Highlights: Lake Argyle and Bungle Bungle scenic flight, Ivanhoe Crossing, Mini hike Miriam National Park (including wallaby sighting), Kelly’s Knob lookout. Today was a very early start (5 am) to an incredible experience flying from Kununurra flying over Lake Argyle, Bungle Bungle, and Argyle Diamond Mine. Both Kara and myself were obviously…

  • Thursday 25 August 2022.Highlights: The Hoochery Distillery, Understanding Sandalwood trees, visiting the Argyle (Durack) Homestead Museum, Cruising on the Ord Dam spotting crocodiles, flying foxes, birds and amazing rock formations! Today we moved into a major agriculture region of Australia around Kununurra all made possible by the Ord Dam completed in 1972 that capture the…

  • Wednesday 24 August 2022.Highlights: Exploring the Pentecost River, Chamberlain Gorge, Hiking to Emma Gorge. We woke up before our alarm to the birds singing and a strong wind blowing. We were later to find out the strong wind meant the cruise up Chamberlain Gorge had to be cancelled. However this gave us more time to…

  • Tuesday 23 August 2022.Highlights: The rugged Australian Outback, Learning the history of Argyle Mine and local Aboriginal history, The Five Rivers at Wyndham An early start to the day with breakfast at 6 am and on the road by 7 am for 346 kilometre drive to Emma Gorge (plus a surprise extra trip to Wyndham).…

  • Monday 22 August 2022.Highlights: Exploring Fitzroy Crossing, the landscape at Ngumban Cliff, Today was a late start not needing to be at breakfast until 7am and not leaving until 9 am. Kara and me decided to take advance of this by exploring the property but some of our fellow travellers suggested walking to the Fitzroy…