​Day 4 and the end of the road! 17 July 2017 

We started this last morning of our GRR adventure with a delicious brekkie of Crepe Suzette a la camp (we eat very well on the road, always!) and arrived in Derby early afternoon. There we sat in a line of caravans for half an hour waiting to get a site! It's a popular destination.

You'll get it I'm sure! But yep we're at the end of the GRR.

I came across a couple of old tractors in the caravan park that had towed vans across 'The Road'. These stalwart travellers were from NSW and were returning there via the Tanami track. Us too!!

We made it! And what a wonderful experience it was. I can't help thinking how lucky we are to have been able to do it - and come through in one piece! The Kimberly must be one of the worlds last great wildernesses with its breathtaking beauty. I would have to say that driving the GRR must be one of the best ways to really appreciate its grandeur. The area is huge - Victoria and Tassie would fit into it yet its population is little more than that of Mildura. The gorges are gorgeous! The horizon is one of imposing rocky ranges in many places and in others a fringe of grey and white trunks with grey, blue, green crowns blot everything out except the ribbon of red ahead. It a land of strange trees like the boab and corky bark acacias - and often clouds of infiltrating red dust. It's a marine frontier visited by Macassans, Arabs, Chinese and Dutch traders and European explorers - but well after aborigines first came to these shores 50-60,000 years ago. It is a spectacular, ancient and 'surprising' part of Australia.
Next!? We still have a long way to go with many rivers to cross ........

Derby foreshore. Locals were fishing for supper. Incidentally the tides up here are 11-12 metres. Wow!

And as the sun sinks into the west ....... we will travel on to more wonderful places.