Day 50 Derby WA

It has been 18 days & just under 1200kms since our last post from Kununurra, due to no access to the internet over that time  along the Gibb River Road.
We have now reached the west coast of Australia after 7 weeks travelling.
From Kununurra, we went to El Questro & spent a few days in one of their private bush camps with our personal river access - very pleasant. While there, we visited Blanco's Lookout, where we got married in 2009 - photo - we were dressed differently last time though. We walked into Emma and Amalia Gorges and swam in the pools at the foot of the water falls into the gorges - very refreshing (read chiily)! and drove over some of their 4wd tracks to some scenic lagoons & lookouts.
The next stop was King Edward River at the beginning of the Mitchell Falls road - one of the prettiest campsites so far. Photo. We stayed there 4 nights all up - one on the way to Mitchell falls and 3 on the way back. We swam, canoed, fished, walked & visited some great aboriginal rock art sites while there.

The 70+km road to Mitchell Falls was a rough, rocky, corrugated, bulldust, narrow, with plenty of unexpected creek crossings. On our first day, we walked into and back from the falls visiting a couple of aboriginal rock art sites and taking a few dips to cool off along the way. This took about 5 hours all up. On the second day we walked into the falls and took an 18 minute helicopter flight back to the camp ground after following the Mitchell river from above the falls to the ocean - quite spectacular and very enjoyable. Photo.

Thanks Lea. John was right, the chain did fall off, fortunately without harm to either it or the operator.