Hell's Crack

Trip Start Jun 05, 2007
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Trip End Jun 2009


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Flag of Australia  , Western Australia,
Sunday, October 5, 2008

The drive from Kununurra around the south Kimberleys was a lovely drive albeit long. There was a lot of vast open desert and scrub but in the distance we could see mountains and escarpments slowly looming. Several times we slowed to a standstill to admire the great Wedge-tailed Eagles devouring road kill - it didn't matter that we came to a stop on the highway as we were generally the only people on the road, only occasionally passing other vehicles and road trains. The road trains are something else, usually travelling at speed, it isn't a pleasant feeling when you can see one of these beasts coming up your rear. In this neck of the woods they also carry very large sections of mining equipment and are often oversized with a vehicle flanking them front and back. When you see the flashing lights of an assistance vehicle and an illuminated arrow on his roof advising you to move over, you get off the road and stop. With some of the buckets and tyres we have seen, I would hate to see the JCB they would be attached to!
We finally made it to Halls Creek and given the time, we feared continuing the journey in view of the bloody great red kangaroos that can come hopping into the road at any time from dusk till dawn. We had the unfortunate displeasure of having to visit the nasty public loo and also took the time to take a look at the notice board of the community hall - there were photos and notices regarding the state of the grassed recreation area in the center of town, covered in beer cans and general detritus, they were asking the locals to help keep the place tidy and clean. We wondered where on earth we had found ourselves. There was only one campsite here and fortunately they had space. It was a gravel site with a high corrugated fence surrounding it, we had been warned to keep an eye on our things and make sure we locked up as the previous night an esky and a car had been nicked - lovely, we felt really reassured! We chatted to a couple of people resident on the site who had unfortunately broken down and were stuck there waiting for car parts - poor them. As darkness came so did the shouts, screams and dog barking of the residents of this town and it continued all night long. We got very little sleep and ended up waking and leaving by 6am or maybe it was 7, but that's another story...
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