Happy Birthday Rosie!!!

We were all up with the crack of dawn wishing Rosie happy birthday and looking forward to the celebration out tonight in Broome at a restaurant – civilisation at last!

Everyone ate brekky and decommissioned the camp for the last time this leg of the Wild Adventure – Wells coming in first with the OCD neatness award for back of car presentation followed closely by the Hackies (or was that tarp hiding the truth??)!!

The Titan was not up to standard but at least everything fitted in and the Hunters have the self inflating mattress down pat!

Macgyver had repaired the WAECO fridge cord for the umpteenth time – Branch did not even bother appearing as it was such a mundane occurrence!

Once outside the national park Trev put the drone up to capture footage of our last few kms on the Gibb…

The landscape towards Derby was again different with rolling grass Savannah, boabs and more dry creek beds.

A bit more road kill was evident with majestic eagles and kites having a feed.

We arrived on the tar and inflated the tyres – Gordie and the Titan were overjoyed!!

Rosie had found a new use for baby wipes…cleaning out the red dust from the inside of the car doors!!

…but there was still a bit of dirt to come – and a grader working it – no wonder the Gibb was in reasonable condition!

We continued on to Derby where we stopped at the tip to dump our rubbish….

Then on to civilisation and a coffee at a bakery in Derby…..tasted great as did the pie and cream donut!

Leaving Derby we arranged to meet at our accommodation in Broome as Glen and Annette were keen to have a look around Derby briefly as it was their first visit.

We arrived at our accommodation – Broome Beach Resort – very salubrious – the only thing missing was a swipe card!!

Everyone settled in and washing commenced at a furious pace!!

As it was Rosie’s birthday we celebrated at the Diver’s Tavern enjoying a great meal and surprising Rosie with not 1 but 3 head torches (great minds think alike!!) as well as a mango and passionfruit cake.