The first stop in our Gibb River road trip was the El Questro Station. We had a private campsite along the Pentecost River where we stayed for three nights; such spectacular country. We feasted our eyes on crystal clear emerald and azure coloured pools, fantastic gorges with cascading waterfalls, abounding in Pandanus, Livistona palms and ferns. All of this set in the amazing red cliffs and the towering Cockburn range. We also relaxed in the Zebedee Springs, 31 degrees of crystal clear water flowing from the base of a towering gorge into natural rock pools. We braved the Pentecost river crossing in our 4WD and many other water crossings, the longest one being 400 metres with water lapping up to the doors, very exciting!
From there we had a night at Home Valley Station, where Peter caught, not a barramundi, but a catfish on the rapidly rising incoming tide on the Pentecost river. This literally rose meters in the course of an hour and a half. Then an overnight bush camp on the banks of the Durack River (more fishing – unsuccessful), then headed to Mitchell falls.
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