Tuesday, Jan 05, 2016 at 20:14
HV used
to be a private family place - I think it may have offered morning teas etc. Not sure about fuel or a store there in the past. Think it was Sinnamon family??? We camped at Jacks
Waterhole in 2000 and I think the property had gone
to indigenous ownership by then. One flood too many and it was not re-opened. I had not visited
Home Valley before 2007.
Fuel - Mt Barnett, and I think
Home Valley and
El Questro on the Gibb.
Drysdale River and
Kalumburu andsometimes at McGowans - cheaper than
Kalumburu. Was
Imintji Store at the western end of Gibb but it closed last year. Don't know about this year.
About March, contact
Derby or
Kununurra Info Centre - they put out a useful brochure on the Gibb etc - updated each year, which is necessary: fuel, camping, gas, stores etc.
Mitchell Falls is Nat Park
campground - small fee.
Toilets. Water from specified area of creek.
If you want some worthwhile but not as
well known
places to camp and explore, I recommend Mornington and Charnley River. A friend who travels with us went
to Mt Hart last year and said it was worth the trip in.
Be warned - the days of
free camping on the Gibb are long gone. Just about every possible spot has No Camping signs. The land is either pastoral property or Nat Park or indigenous lands - not open
to all comers. Too many campers in the past did the wrong things and stuffed it for later comers. This means that a trip through those parts is not cheap.
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