Fitzroy Crossing 16th - 19th July

We stayed at Fitzroy Crosssing Lodge, a caravan park on the outskirts of town. Fitzroy Crossing is small, consisting of an IGA, post office, tourist info, and two petrol stations. We used our time here to visit Geike Gorge which is about 15km out of town. We went on a small boat trip down the gorge that was run by the national park in conjunction with the Banuba people, the local indigenous community. Geike Gorge has amazing limestone walls, beautiful calm water (very inviting in the heat, 35 degrees plus). The boat trip lasted an hour and was both driven and commentated by a local aboriginal women, who shared a number of insights into both the local environment and the significance of the gorge to the aboriginal people. 

We used our second day at Fitzroy Crossing as a chill-out day, where we planned the next stage of our adventure as we come close to leaving beautiful Western Australia behind. While we planned the kids occupied themselves playing on their scooters and ripstik, making new friends with other children. We managed to get a lot of information from other travellers going in the opposite direction to us. Luckily Fitzroy River Lodge has a swimming pool so it was easy to cool down in the heat when required.

Boyd managed to get his haircut from a retired barber offering haircuts from his caravan.

From Fitzroy Crossing we head to Turkey Creek (Warmun). This stop is to enable some of us to see the Bungle Bungles from a helicopter. Unfortunately, the helicopter only takes 3 passengers, so Boyd and Archie are staying on terra firma whilst the rest get a close look.