Return to the Gibb River Road.

After having our car repaired in Broome (an expensive exercise), we set off again for the Gibb River road to complete the section that we missed. We waded through Tunnel Creek (a large and dark limestone cave through which a creek passes), ambled through Windjana Gorge (where we saw our first fresh water crocodiles) and after camping alongside Bell Creek, journeyed into Bell Gorge. As you will see by the photos and video this gorge was certainly one of the most beautiful that we visited on our Kimberley trek. Our journey through the Gibb included many memorable events; one was driving past two large road trains (with three trailers each) bogged in the center of the Gibb River road. One obviously got bogged and the other tried to go around him and got bogged also. Unfortunately we didn’t get a photo of this, but these two rigs ended up closing the Gibb River road to all traffic. Graders had to be sent from Derby to extract them. Another notable near misadventure was the sudden appearance of a huge big black wild boar. It rushed up the side of the road and directly in front of our Prado. I hit the brakes and then watched as it, seeing us, increased it’s speed and with a piggy snort dashed off the other side of the road and within 10 seconds was at least 50 meters away and safely hidden in the bush. I wouldn’t like to be facing one racing toward me on foot that’s for sure.