And so at last, after a fleeting resupply visit at Broome it was time to point the bonnet east and start our journey into the mighty Kimberley. We were held up briefly on the road to Derby due to heavy vehicle accident. It seemed the beer truck had tipped his trailer wheels off the bitumen edge and lost control, ending up with the trailer on its side and beer all over the road. Thankfully no one appeared hurt, and after a short hold up whilst they righted the trailer, we continued on our way without any more incidents.
Lunch on the Fitzroy River at Willare Bridge
We stopped for lunch out of Derby at the Willare Bridge. It was a very pleasant spot to stop for lunch - although we kept well back from the river's bank ever conscious of the Estuarine Crocodile. The river here apparently also has freshwater relatives of sharks and sword fish living in it, left behind when the water levels dropped some millions of years ago. We didn't see any of course on our brief stop.
