18th to 24th October 1999 (Week 42)

Due to a pothole we hit at the end of week 41, we had to have our car fixed at a garage in Darwin. It replaced some bent shackles on the suspension. We waited till Wednesday morning bevor we could drive on. in the meantime we expirienced temperatures around 35 degrees celsius and almost 100% humidity. The 4 days we stayed in Darwin were mostly spent around the pool, in order for us to recharge our own batteries so to speak. Almost every day we had a pretty severe storm for maybe half an hour or so. Wednesday itself started with some pretty bad pounding rain, suggesting that the wet season would start this year about a month earlier. So we definately need now to make way to the Kimberley's before it is to late.
On the way to the Kimberley's we visited pictoresque Butterfly Gorge, were a lot of Butterflies take refuge, as well as the Douglas Hot Springs nearby. We stayed in Katherine for the Night. Just before we reached Katherine, we got again into a severe Thunderstorm which lasted around 2 hours. The next day we drove on towards Kununarra, the starting point for the Kimberley region.

From Kununarra we drove to Wyndham, visiting the 5 River lookout and a 20 m long sculpture of a saltwater crocodile as well as a nearby prison boab tree.

From here on we visited El Questro station with many beautiful natural features like the Zebedee Hot Springs, El Questro-, Emma- and Chamberlain Gorge.