We spent a couple of nights at Mitchel Falls that included our first helicopter flight but only after a long 70k bumpy ride from the camp ground to the falls, the helicopter ride was short but worth the $115 to see the falls from the air before being dropped off to explore and walk back. From Mitchel Falls it was a night at Mount Elizabeth Station on the Gibb River Road before the Tassie Toyota of Jim and Maxine failed and Jim decided they needed to dash to Derby for some new front shockers.

It was decided that Windjana Gorge would be our last night together before we headed in different directions, we had to travel 200ks south along the Gibb to cross Napier Range an old reef that was under water 350 million years ago but now looked like a man made wall near Windjana Gorge, we got our first flat on the Gibb here we had done well to only get one as most get many. The Napier Range is around 40 – 50 meters high and similar in appearance to the great china wall in parts, much higher but similar in shape.

Our final night camped under the Napier at Windjana Gorge was shared around a camp fire and another great meal cooked by the chef as the rest of us watched Shell do her stuff. In the morning it was Shelly doing the job and serving up some pretty good pancakes whilst Maxine served up the champagne. A champagne and beer breakfast was a brat way to finish our trip together. Windjana Gorge was ok and the Lennard River was home to many fresh water crocs but it wasTunnel Creek that had us impressed with this part of the Kimberley.

Tunnel Creek is east from Windjana, still part of the Napier Range but not the type of creek we were expecting, Tunnel Creek runs under or through the Napier Range for about 750 meters, its 12 meters high and 15 meters wide, we walk through the tunnel in water and by torch light most of the way. This cave had some smaller caves along the way that we explored that go a long way into the mountain we couldn’t access it all the way as it gets very small or maybe we are just to large right now with our larger holiday bodies.

We walked out of the mild conditions and bats of a 350 millions year old cave to the harsh 40c heat of the Kimberley and said our good byes to the Tasmanians we had spent 2 great weeks together with but it was time for us to head north again, in a few days we will be in Darwin.