Day 3 on the GRR - a day of awesome mountains and gorges  16 July 2017 

Imintji roadhouse is run by the Imintji aboriginal community. It's a welcome site along this dusty road.

First a stop for fuel at Imintji just to be on the safe side. There had been gorges along the route, but we decided to wait till Bells Gorge. It was worth it! You access it via Silent Grove and indeed it was silent and shady with a couple of massive mango trees along side a small creek.

Yeah I know - not another creek crossing! We had a few on the road into Silent Grove.  And here it is 3 months into the dry season. Thank goodness there are no leaks in the car is all can say.

The track along Bells creek was lined with screw palms (spiral pandanus) and lots of trees and grasses and bright red dragonflies. We had water on side and the wall of the gorge on the other.

The creek track brought us out close to the waterfall. The rock was like pink granite and very slippery. No fences out here to stop people falling - they're a tough breed up here in the Kimberley!

Along Bells Creek to the waterfall, the smell of wattle and mint was delicious, but it was hot and thirsty work in the midday sun as the track in was a few Km. We wished we'd taken our bathers, but .... it was really worth it.

What a gorgeous pool! Far below me people were having a wonderful time. Had I been a little younger (aka fitter and braver), I'd have been down there, but it was a bit of a climb and a little bit slippery. I enjoyed watching!

I went as close to the edge as I dared to snap this. Awesome isn't it? They say its 150 m, but  it looked more to me from my high point and I'm sure it must have looked much bigger from below. In the background you can see small figures walking up to rocks; they were heading for the drop pool. They had to walk a ways up before descending to the pool.

The gorge sits within the King Leopold Range, named after the King of Belgium in the late 1800s. Composed of quartz sandstone and dolerite, it is just stunning, awesome and - gorgeous!

Totally impossible to capture the King Leopold Range with my iPhone but driving beside it was pretty spekky!

We hit patchy tar road about 100 or so Km out of Derby and stopped for the night by a dam. We slept with the smell of cattle and the squawk of black cockatoos. Our last night of the great outdoors - this time! Tomorrow we would reach the end of the GRR and arrive in Derby.