To King Edward River Crossing WA

On Saturday we decided on an easy day and so we didn’t leave 8:30 am after a very quiet night next to the Boab tree. Although we did hear some dingos howling first thing and also noticed foot prints around Buster. 

King Leopold Ranges

No dump points so have to bury the toilet waste

We had in mind to either stop at Hann River Crossing or continue on to the Gibb River Crossing free camps. As all the good spots were already taken at Hann River we kept going. 

The condition of the road in this section of the Gibb River Road had a few more corrugations and creek crossings. 

20km before Gibb River camp we spotted a track next to Kennedy Creek . There was an area big enough for Buster with some shade so we decided to stay here. A bonus was that we had it all to ourselves. We got set up and ready to watch the Bombers by 10am. Later we did a few jobs on Buster - one was to clean the floor! Then enjoyed a relaxing afternoon. 

Rosella flower. Edible leaves and seeds. Tart raspberry like flavour.

The next morning we got back on the road by 8am. We passed the junction rest stop and then the free Gibb River camp, which was very busy. 

We turned off to go into Drysdale Station around 9:20am. We went to the reception as we needed to buy a Uunguu visitor pass ($50pp/5 days) to drive up to Mitchell Falls. 

After breakfast we drove back out and went to the rubbish tip before continuing on the Gibb River-Kalumburu road. 

The road conditions from this point disintegrated and we had many more corrugated sections and creek crossings.

 It took us 2 hours to drive 107km to King Edward Camp.

Just before we reached the campsite we had to crossing the deepest river we have encountered so far. Unfortunately, we didn’t quite make it all the way across, with Buster struggling we had to get out in hip high water to turn the front wheel hub locks on to engage 4wd. This did the trick and Buster made it out ok… another lesson learnt (should have put it in 4wd before entering deeper crossings as all the others we had managed ok in 2wd) and we were lucky that the only mishap was a bit of water in one of our tool lockers. Phew. 

We chose one of the lovely individual campsites, costing $17pp. Dried out and then went for a walk to the falls. A nice reward at the end of the day.

62km from Boab tree to Kennedy creek. 185km to King Edward Camp