After our second night at Windjana, we had a long drive planned - back to Derby to hitch up the van and then continue on to Fitzroy Crossing on the Great Northern Highway. The main purpose of our visit was to a boat trip on Geikie Gorge, a short drive out of town. I took us to the wrong caravan park and we ended up next to a very rowdy hotel which apparently has some historical significance. Regardless at 3pm it was going off and we were hoping that the noise wouldn’t go too late into the night. Definitely not the place to take the family for a bistro dinner.
On checking into the park we noted that we had lost our rear rego plate and so headed into town to report it missing, amongst other things. A rookie constable told us not to worry about it, no police in northern WA would get too excited about a NSW family driving about minus a rear number plate. We found an interesting little glass blowing gallery as well as an Aboringinal art gallery which had some beautiful pieces but some very haughty staff, which we felt would have been more in keeping with Mosman or Double Bay than Fitzroy Crossing - a shame as there were a few works that we really liked. Rubes had taken a bit of interest in some of the art we had been seeing around the place and was a keen follower into all the galleries we had visited - if only the boys has the same interest.
We had been told the boat tour up Geikie Gorge run by National Parks was worth the trip and also reasonably priced. Being the end of the dry, the water seemed to be still, but it is part of the mighty Fitzroy River which, in the wet, carries a mind boggling volume of water through the Kimberley and eventually out to sea. Part of the ancient Devonian reef system we had seen at both Windjana and Tunnel Creek, Geike is a picturesque place. Our guide provided us with facts about the Gorge and the Fitzroy which made me think how fantastic it would be to travel by kayak or canoe and camp along the banks of this spectacular waterway. Perhaps another time...
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