1st August 2013
Greetings for the top of north WA.  We arrived in Derby today having crossed the Gibb River Road.  Jenny and Bill you will be proud of me for overcoming my desire NOT to do it.  I didnt poo myself but got very close many times.  But as you and others said the scenery. gorges and uniqueness of the Kimberley was just amazing and unable to be appreciated without being there to see it yourself.

We met up with a couple from Victoria on our way through to Kunanurra - Bob had some trouble with his brakes on his rig so Clive came to the rescue. We ended up travelling with them as support for them through to Lake Argyle where we  thought we would part ways.  However they offered to change their itinerary and travel with us through Gibb River Road if that would help persuade me to do it.  A very generous offer as they have done it twice before - we took them up on it.  So 7 days later and very dusty and dirty we did it.  We go to Broome tomorrow and then officially start our travels down the west coast for however long that will take us.  Rough guesstimate is that we will get towards Perth sometime in November.

We have met some great people on the way ( and some strange ones as well !). - we regularly have people commenting on the van and asking to see it as they are really impressed with it.  it would be unusual not to have this happening at every stop we make.  We continue to have a wide variety of places where we stay - the solar power and self containment is absolutely great.  and then we also have powered sites periodically where we enjoy having aircon, running water and no limits on water consumption.

Some trouble posting pics so will send this off as text only and then try to follow with pics. it will only a very small range of what we have taken - they cant always do justice to what is before your eyes.