TRIP OUTLINE - This was our very first adventure.
risbane across central Queensland to the Northern Territory's Mataranka Springs, Kakadu, Shady Camp, Darwin, Daly River, to Western Australia's Gibb River Road, El Questro Station, Mitchell Falls, to Broome's pearl stores and attractions, Halls Creek, the Tanami Desert, Wolf Creek Crater, Alice Springs and across the Plenty Highway home.
RELEASED - 1999
DVD Duration - 1 hr's 15 mins
NOTES - Being our very first adventure and filmed in 1998, it captures a raw and rugged Kimberley feel,
getting a lot of feedback to say how much people love it's style.
A popular highlight is shown when fishing up at Shady Camp, we start returning on the outgoing tide,
and leaving it too late and the tide out too far, have the Saltwater Crocodiles sliding into what was left of the river down the muddy banks, ...... SALTWATER CROCODILES, CROCODILES, AUSTRALIAN CROCODILE, CROCS, SALTWATER CROC, SHADY CAMP CROCODILES, CROCS IN THE WILD, WILD CROCODILES, BIG CROCS, STUCK WITH CROCODILES, THE GALL BOYS, KEDRON BOYS, KIMBERLEY DVDS, THE GALL BOYS DVDS, NT, NORTHERN TERRITORY CROCODILES, BARRA FISHING, BARRAMUNDI FISHING NT.
and under the boat, of which we hit one with the outboard
and get stuck in the sloshy mud ..
into the night.
A terrifying wait in the most densly crocodile populated river in the world, till the tide started coming back in.
From here, across the notorious Gibb River Road, and Mitchell Falls, with a visit and fly over of the El Questro Lodge.
........ GIBB RIVER ROAD, THE KIMBERLEY, THE KIMBERLEYS, CARAVANNING IN THE KIMBERLEY, THE GALL BOYS, KIMBERLEY ADVENTURE, KIMBERLEY DVDS, EL QUESTRO, SHADY CAMP, NT, ORD RIVER, PENTECOST RIVER, BARRA FISHING.
Well it was one that we were thrown into the deep end with, and one we will never forget,
while heading off not knowing what to expect of the remote caravan adventure. .....
The trip would take us form Brisbane across central Queensland to the NT, through Mataranka Springs NP
through Kakadu to the now infamous Shady Camp fishing reserve, Darwin, down to the Daly River, and into the
Kimberley region via the Gibb River Road. ...
We visit the El Questro Station and have a chat to the then English owner Will Burrell, and after a chopper flight
over the exclusive lodge,
make our way further across 'The Gibb' to Pentecost River for a Barramundi fish, .....
and then up the notorious track to the Mitchell Falls.
From here we venture out of the Kimberley and visit the pearling
town of Broome for a sunset over the water on Cable Beach,
to then visit the red cliffs of Cape Leveque.
Then to head for home via Halls Creek, the Tanami Desert Track to Alice Springs, and across the Plenty Highway home.
A 13,500-km trip, and one that takes in the road conditions, the sought after destinations, Barra fishing, BARRAMUNDI FISHING, BARRA FISHING, BARRAMUNDI,
getting stuck up in the silted mud Shady Camp - Mary River to all that the you'd both expect and unexpect!
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