The day begun early with a quiet time and after brekkie, more washing, emptying cars, cleaning and repacking for the next section of our Wild Adventure – the Gibb River Road.

Branch had been out predawn inspecting the water inlet valve in Gordie’s van – a significant blockage from stones meant water could not be put into their water tanks via the hose…. Branch was too early as Gordon was still not yet up…. When Gordie eventually does the flushing and fixing Branch will return!

Later Branch went to look for damage from the flood in Rosie’s van last night due to inadvertently leaving the grey water valve shut during washing machine usage. Rosie had done a great job mopping up but the ground around was still very soggy!

The caravan park was quiet in the early morning – we walked around and saw the giant boab tree in the grounds which is over 2000 years old – amazing. The birdlife here was very diverse – a beautiful parrot landed just outside the outdoor area. The park had great facilities with a relaxed casual feel.

We did some packing then went to the Croc Café for morning tea – Rosie was spoilt for choice with the great variety of locally baked goods… and the coffee was great.

After getting supplies at the local supermarket we went back and packed the cars – chaos reigned for a while …

and there was a lot of standing around with hands on hips… and stuff everywhere…

but finally we seemed to be under control and so headed out for a look at the Wyndham pier and the 5 rivers lookout.

The pier was really interesting – the tides here are about 8.5 foot and the water was very muddy – perfect spot for crocodiles but to Rosie’s disappointment we did not see any. A local aboriginal who was fishing for mudcrabs said that the crocs often come up at about 530pm to sit on the bank so we decided to go up to the lookout for sunset and come back to see if there were any crocodiles.

Currently the Wyndham wharf is used to export live cattle, minerals and oil but at one time it was a large abattoir where cattle were slaughtered then the meat frozen and exported.

The 5 rivers lookout was amazing – the high point which gave a great vista over the bay, pier and Cockburn ranges as well as the 5 rivers that all feed into the bay in this area – the Ord, Pentecost, Forrest, Durack and King rivers.

Tiny rock wallabies were plentiful in the area around the lookout – very unafraid of humans! Rosie was desperate to feed them but fortunately we had nothing for her to give them!!

Wyndham is one of the oldest towns in WA, it is the most northern town in WA and is the average hottest place in Australia all year round.

After watching the gorgeous sunset over the sea….

we went back to the pier in search of the elusive crocodiles…Rosie even got out her torch to look for “shining eyes” in the water – but to no avail.

We headed back to the caravan park for dinner, and then the final bits and pieces to be packed into the cars ready to head out tomorrow morning for the Gibb.

For our time on the Gibb there may be limited reception so the blog will be uploaded when we reach Broome in about 2 weeks….until then 🙂