Drysdale River Station

We left Mt Elizabeth to continue on the GR Rd to the turn off to Kalumburu, then on to Drysdale River Station for the night. This Station has many people staying here on their way to visit the famous Mitchell Falls which is one of the iconic "must visit" places here in the Kimberley. The station has a restaurant, a bar, a shop, and fuel. Hot showers, a great laundry and clean toilets - everything a backpacker or traveller needs. $16 pp per night and one of the best spots we have stayed so far in the Kimberley.
I had read that they have fantastic "Burgers with the lot" so of course we had to have one to compare, but it failed. We don't rate it any better than the last one we had. The best one we have ever had was in Dongara WA.
We had not planned to visit those Falls due Phoebe (Putz). No dogs allowed!!! However the manager of the station told us that he used to be a ranger up at the Mitchell Falls campground for the past eleven years and had left due to red tape and bullshit beuracracy (spellcheck???). Anyway he said they make allowances for small dogs on day trips only. But after numerous reports of how bad the road was due to corrugations, we decided to give it a miss. Another one back on the bucket list.
So we headed on towards Kalumburu, which was the road from hell, only to be told eventually, that this was a good rd compared to the rd to the Mitchell Falls.
Kalumburu is an Aboriginal Mission town where volunteers, and some employed staff look after and administer the running of the town. We bought fishing licences in town at the admin building. You can buy aboriginal art and carvings and visit a museum and shop in the store, otherwise there fis not much to do there.
We didn't actually want to stay in Kalumburu, our destination was Honeymoon Bay, another 25k further north. We eventually arrived after traversing what Dave thought was really rough 4wd stuff, only to find people had towed caravans in here!!!! Dave's ego was busted. Haha.

We do get the odd "bloke" coming over to us and wanting to know the ins and outs of a ducks ass of the truck. One of them up here in Honeymoon Bay has one on order and will be returning to NSW to pick it up.もっと詳しく