holiday valley: Fitzroy Crossing and Derby

From Windjana we headed south to Fitzroy Crossing for a look at Geikie Gorge which is also a part of the Devonian Reef. We did a nice cruise on the Gorge before spending the night at the “Crossing inn” at Fitzroy Crossing. Nice quite park until some locals had a disagreement outside the gate at about 3.30am. Checked out a local market in the morning (I had a hair cut and beard trim – finally) before heading to Derby. Not much option for accommodation in Derby compounded by a major truck prang on the Broome rd which was then closed so anyone heading to Broome needed an alternative. Susan of course landed us a great powered site for the 3 nights. Very busy here with nomads......

We had a bit of a look around Derby in between 6 loads of washing and shopping after the 18 days on the Gibb River Rd. The first night we attended the closing concert for the annual Boab festival which was a nice night out. The next day the boys felt right at home during the tour of the Derby School of the Air, we visited the Boab Prison and local museum before we had dinner at the wharf restaurant and were amazed at tides in Derby.

Derby tides are up to 11.50m, the largest of any Port in Australia. Like Wyndham and Kalumburu, Derby was also bombed during WW11