Port Smith

From Cygnet Bay we stopped off at Broome again for 4 nights then moved on South to Port Smith.

Port Smith is a piece of paradise tucked away down a 22km dirt road off the Great Northern Highway. We soon realised that paradise can come at a cost!? Fly’s Fly’s and more flys and then you have the pin prick midges.

The place was a flat bed of red soil, a well stocked shop and fuel. The shower/toilet blocks were surrounded by flowering bushes which had a striking resemblance to the outside of the Bangkok Hilton, a beautiful garden oasis from the front that puts you into a false sense of security before you enter though the gates of hell! Thankfully the blocks had only seen better days but were clean and also came with a resident frog down the loo and if one decided to drop the kids off the temperature inside the block with the door closed must of been higher than cooking a joint! And the warm shower was such a relief after the intense heat of the Kimberly’s , a must do on anyone’s bucket list!

We adventured down to the lagoon with the idea of staying all day with the mystery bus as a base to retreat too, armed with the generator, fishing rod, crab pot and ice off we went into paradise.

Port smith lagoon is incredibly beautiful, the tide was out so it was a bit of a hike to the waters edge so the idea of the mystery bus being the base was a no go as we couldn’t drive any further unless we wanted to recreate Top gear!
No one there ,we had the whole lagoon to ourselves, we set up under the mango trees with the flys. The water was crystal clear , the sand was white and a nice breeze blew cooling the hot Kimberly landscape. The heat of the day kicked in , we retreated back to camp, the hotter you got the more the flys, it got that intense, up your nose, in your ears , in your mouth at one point the only salvation was a big rimmed hat, sunglasses and a sarong rapped rounded the hat and across the face, the idea of an idilic day in paradise suddenly became an endurance run as we ran for cover
of the mystery’s bus.,

We were pleased we stayed and pleased we were leaving, as we pulled off the 22km of dirt track back onto the Great Northern Highway the memories of Port Smith endurance stay shall be forever etched into one’s memory as a place they should send the SAS for training!Read more