The Gibb River Road

The Gibb River Road is an unsealed road that runs nearly 680kms from near Kununurra to Derby in Western Australia. It is only open from May to October in the dry season, and many of the river crossings have no bridges; you just drive straight through!

The photo on the left is taken from the Victoria River crossing. We camped on the banks of the river here and it was a very pretty sandstone escarpment. There was water in the river, but also crocodiles, so we did not swim!

The next crossing was the Pentacost River near El Questro. This was a wide shallow crossing in three sections, with the Pentacost Range as a backdrop. Everyone who travels the Gibb River Road takes a photo here! That's Rick and Anne's hire vehicle crossing. The sky is so blue and cloudless.