planning a trip to the kimberleys

You could go up through the Tanami, but there are a few limitations. One is fuel supply as i beleive that the Rabbit Flat road house is closed, so not too sure where you would refuel. The other is what time of year are you planning? its starting to warm up now.
Have a look athttp://www.kimberleyaustralia.com/ its a good website with plenty of information.
Regards Angus

Nick,

You should find some good info in members blogs.
My 2008 Kimberley trip report is here:
Kimberley Trip
Ron & Viv Moons Book 'The Kimberley, An Adventurer's Guide' is also worth while.

That is one huge question! We just did the Kimberley in June, July and August. Had one of the best trips ever. We meet lots of fellow travellers who came up the centre via the Tanami, but most were towing camper trailers and said they had no problems at all. We took 11 weeks for our trip; just over 15,000 k’s and spent $4572 on fuel. I hope you are intending on doing the full Gibb River Road. The road is about 640 k’s long; we took 4 weeks on the Gibb and did 3,000 k’s. Travel book wise, we mainly used the Hema Kimberley guide and our Camps 5 book. We also used our laptop to research on the way, info centres and best of all, ‘Word of Mouth’. Also, most guides are aimed at travelling east to west on the Gibb, we took the sealed road from Kununurra to Broome and then we did the Gibb back to to Kununurra. A lot of people had the Birgit Bradtke guide to the Kimberley. You can do a free download of her pocket guide, but the full guide has a lot more detail and is well worth it. Here is the web site- www.kimberleyaustralia.com/destination-kimberley.html

Mitchell Falls


And you must do a trip to the Horizontal Water Falls!

Hi Nick, it all depends on how much time you have. Like Richard, I too have Blogs here from the Kimberley (and the Tanami) from 2008. We also went to Mitchell Falls and Kalumburu. Much more to see on the 'long' way round, which i would pick as the better way. My 2009 blogs continuing north from Alice Springs are not loaded yet. Like Richard, I too took the Ron Moon book, as well as other traveller's blogs for more detailed first hand descriptions. The Kimberley is the best of the best Australia has to offer.

Motherhen

Thanks for all your reply's . We were thinking of going may june next via katherine Kununurra gibb river road , is this the long way , better way , more to see way !!!
If I was to go via the tanami & come out around halls crk then go up to kumunurra and then down GRR . Not to much to see on the tanami or what ??
Horizontal Water Falls! is this fly in only ?

cheers nick

G'Day Nick,

We recently did the Gibb from West to East, many many must sees, but Tunnel Creek and Windjana Gorge are two!

Cheers....Browny