Quote Originally Posted by FOS View Post
My wife and I did the Gibb in 2010. We didn’t book ahead, just winged it all the way.
We started from the Derby side, first stop Windjana Gorge. Camping at the Gorge was $10 from memory, first in best dressed. Solar showers and long drop toilets, no powered sites.
The axle on the camper trailer seize half way across at Imintji . Neville from "Over the range Mechanical repairs" located directly next to Imintji Roadhouse made up a “new” axle from an old Toyota axle. That got us all the way home to Perth via Kununurra. We had to camped in the bush down by the river for the night which was a bit scary.
We were heading up to Kulumburu but the road up to Drysdale River Station was rough as guts and we just didn’t want to drive another 160 kms on corrugation like that. Driving in we were doing 20 kph and it was rattling the fillings outta my teeth. Coming out I floored it (90 – 100kms) and it wasn’t too bad.
Home Valley Station: Best Barramundi I have ever eaten.
El Questro: Millionaires paradise, to expensive for this little peasant.
Hi Fos, what time of the year did you do your trip?
A lot of the places we are going don't have booking but we will spend some time at caravan parks at Broome, Fitzroy Crossing and Kununurra and have been advised to book these.
I would be happy to avoid these places but the two wives have to be kept happy.
The broken axle would have been a real drama for you, i would imagine the camper you had would have done a lot of work being a hire one but does makes me think again of all the mechanical things that can go wrong.