Just near Halls creek is the Geike Gorge National Park. We followed a walk along the Sandy bank of the Fitroy River. We forget the stat exactly, but it is apparently the largest river in Australia, by volume, and you can understand why.
The gorge was on average about 200 metres wide and judging by the white stains on the side of the gorge walls, (caused by the high level of lime in the water) there's a shed-load during the wet season of the summer months. Compare the size of Peta to the height of the white stains.
It's a fair drive from Halls Creek to Broome, about 700kms, so out I got again to fill the tank from Jerry and Jerry. At least here we had views of stunning Boab trees.
We passed through Broome pretty quickly and headed up to Cape Leveque, and it wasn't too much longer before we had our snorkel gear on and in the water. Never mind that we just travelled across 100km of sandy road with the little rav just having clearance at times!
The life in the small rockpools was impressive. Who knew there was so much happening at your feet!
Cape Leveque, like much of the nothern Western Australian coast, has beautiful white sandy beaches with contrasting red (Pindan) sand and rocks next to them. Where the two met you could sometimes see pink sand!
Maybe a little excessively, but we used our new underwater camera to capture almost everything we saw in the rock pools.
We were sad to leave our campsite at Cape Leveque, check out the view from our kitchen! (and bedroom and entertainment area)
Unfortunately on the return to Broome the clutch in the Rav blew out. We thought it would make it back to Broome to get it fixed but, it didn't. With no phone reception (even with Telstra) Peta volunteered to take a ride with a passing couple into Broome. I waited with the car for three hours until a happy looking Peta returned with the Tow Truck and the driver, Jason.
The rest of the journey to Broome was done on the back of the tow truck. :(
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