The Gibb River Road - Derby to Mt Hart

Letting the tyres down - hopefully for a more comfortable ride!!










Dust, Dust and more Dust!! Another car a long way in front!!

The Prison Boab Tree - Derby

Cape Leveque

Our Cabin - luckily it was a little way from the beach and a bit protected from the gale force wind.










It was so cold and windy on our first morning, we got sand blasted on the beach. We all ended up back in our cabin playing monopoly













Sunset at Cape Leveque - Beautiful












Day 2 - The wind has died down but it is still cold!!!

Broome

Freezing, wet and Windy - Who said Broome was nice!!!











Wiley Creek Pearl Farm - about 50K worth of Pearls












Micaela with a $4000 Pearl Necklace - maybe Santa might bring this for Christmas!!!!!!!


















Cable Beach looked like this when it was time to leave!!!!

Geike Gorge - Fitzroy Crossing

More Bungle's

The Bungle Bungle's

The Dam Wall

End of our Lake Kununarra Tour - back into town by bus and then 200km onto Turkey Creek

Welcome to WA

We stayed in these gorgeous bungalow's right on Lake Kununarra












Lake Kununarra












Elephant Rock - Lake Kununarra













More Lake Kununarra

Katherine to Kununarra

Morning Tea Break after our Gorge Tour - ready to hit the road again for the 500km trip to Kununarra










Gregory National Park - Spectacular scenery to drive through on the way to WA

Katherine Gorge

Our first stop was Katherine. We went on the Katherine Gorge boat tour. It was freezing - well for us Jabiru mob anyway!! It was just beautiful, even with our booking being mixed up! They forgot to book us on the tour that Joe booked months prior. However we got to go early the next day free of charge!

Katherine Hot Springs

Micaela, Liz and Kloe enjoying the hot springs. The hot springs were right behind where we were staying.

Happy 15th Birthday Tom

Tom's Birthday 5th July

More V8

Much to her father and brothers horror Micaela is a HOLDEN girl!! Kloe and Jarred both had a great time with all the free kids activities

V8 Supercars

Oma,Opa and Liz in Kakadu

Yes, Yes, Yes..... I know I have been a very, very bad BLOGGER! Just don't seem to get the time at the moment. This picture was taken in early July!!

Oma, Opa and Liz Arrive on Sunday

The count down is on - Oma, Opa and Liz arrive in Darwin on Sunday afternoon. We are heading into Darwin Sunday morning for some shopping and then picking them up and heading back to Jabiru. The boys have lots of fishing planned and the girls will be doing lots of sightseeing!! Friday sees us head back to Darwin to pick up the other half of the arrivals - Donna, Joe, Rebecca, Tom, Evelyn and Tony. Saturday, the Sydney siders are off to Litchfield and the Ams boys are off to the V8 Supercars. The Ams girls are SHOPPING!! Sunday all Ams' are going to the supercars and the others are sightseeing. Monday we are all heading back to Jabiru to show everybody the sights. Then Thursday sees us offically start our big road holiday. LOOK out Broome here we come!!!!!

Update

Well we spent another exciting weekend camping. This time we went to Mardigal and took the boat. We celebrated Jarred's birthday - camp style with a yummy breakie of pancakes and then a few hours out on Mardigal Billabong Fishing. Back to the tent for a late lunch and then birthday cake!!! Slightly squashed Birthday Cake but hey it still tasted good!!! We had a bush BBQ for dinner before the Mozzies tried to carry us away!!! There were so many....... I'm sure if we had stayed out any longer they would have!! Sunday saw us head out on the water again this time to Yellow Waters. It wasn't hard to spot a croc today - there were heaps of them. The lillies are out in flower and the waterway looks so pretty. We all had lots of fun and cannot wait to do it again!!!

Our First Camp Trip

The kids had a fantastic time at Gunlom. It was very cool and windy - so the fire on Sunday night was a big hit. Even bigger was toasting Marshmallows on the fire!! Everyone had so much fun we are going camping again this weekend - two nights this time!!

Long Weekend Camping Trip to Gunlom - Waterfall Creek

Termite Mounds on the Highway











Gunlom - Waterfall Creek








































The New Camper Trailer (Well it was new until we went down 40kms of dirt track!!!)












Camper Trailer Open