Broome - Duncan Road- Ord Valley Muster- El Questro & back to Broome

Well it's been about a week since the last update, I picked the girls up from Broome last Tuesday night, it was good to see them again. So Wednesday saw us heading towards Halls Creek to link up with the Duncan Road to take us to Kununurra for the Ord valley muster on Saturday night, only for us to come across a stricken couple 30km's south of the Willaire roadhouse, 2 destroyed tyres saw them going nowhere, so it was my time to do a good deed and help them out, Ended up having to run the mans wife into Derby (80km's away to help source some new 33" tyres for thier troopy)  The guys at the tyre shop in Derby were good enough to sort her out and get her back to her husband.  We only made it as far as Fitzroy Crossing for the night.

Thursday saw us hit the Duncan road and stopping at Marella gorge for the night, what a cracker jack spot that was, had the place to our selves, but bloody cold.  After packing up on the Friday we landed at Kununurra to join up with our friends the Aldridges and Jones for a few days and do the Ord River Muster which saw me dancing away to Kasey Chambers and Paul Kelly, was a great night and one I'll remember for a long time, my type of shindig it was.

Sunday we had no real plans set so we decided to hang with the Aldridges and Jones and head to El Questro for a couple of days and let Raz play with the other kids before we went our separate ways again.  Us boys went and did the walk to elquestro gorge late in the afternoon, we all trekked in with our slr cameras looking very professional yet very amatuerish, after a couple of lessons from Jonesy i managed to out do myself and get a couple of ripper pics of running water over the waterfalls at El Questro gorge.  On the Monday I took the girls and the Aldridges came along to do the walk to Amalia Gorge, It was a good walk, some minor challenges with passing the kids up and over a few tricky bits, but worth it in the end.

Tuesday morning and it was time to leave the friends for 1 last time and head back onto the black top to kununurra and restock and make our way back to Broome, stopping at Mary pool for the night just west of Halls Creek, one of the best overnight highway camp spots i've stayed at, and head upto Cape Leveque this Friday for a few days and Middle Lagoon, and meet up with the Arelette's after i get my tow bar replaced, (thats another story).

One thing i will say is, keep an eye on your trailers that your towing about the country side, today we saw a couple towing the skin cancer trailer around, we saw them at Fitzroy crossing, they left 5 minutes before us, we saw them 20 minutes later after thier drawbar on the 6 tonne trailer broke and rolled thier tailer on the highway, we came across them no more than 2 minutes after the accident, they were very lucky they were not injured as the old bloke driving did a great job to save the truck from rolling, he came away with just a saw arm and a fright.

We are having a great family time together, alreadty have some great memories to take with us,

enjoy the pics,

until next time
Slippery Knickers and Raz