Day 43 To Kununurra

Today we drove into Western Australia for our stay at Kununurra. We drove through Victoria River. The Victoria River is the longest river in Australia's Northern Territory, stretching 560 km from the Victoria Bonaparte bioregion to the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf in the Timor Sea. It is renowned for giant barramundi fishing and spectacular outback scenery near the Judbarra / Gregory National Park. The area is known for immense sandstone escarpments, which are just spectacular and boab trees.






We stopped at Timber Creek for lunch. It is really amazing travelling along the road here as there are mountains everywhere which remind me of The Great Dividing Range. There is a layer towards the top of the mountains that has an exposed rock then the tree and grasses are above that area again, very unusual.



Timber Creek was named in 1855 when the explorer Augustus Gregory used timber from the banks of the creek to repair his expedition's boat. The Timber Creek Police Station was built in 1908. It is a typical example of Northern Territory public architecture of the time with covered verandas to keep it cool in summer.











Gregory's Tree, a historic boab tree located on the banks of the Victoria River, is an Aboriginal sacred site known as Ngalibinggag (pronounced Nali-la-bing-gag). The site holds deep cultural and spiritual significance for the local Traditional Owners, the Ngarinyman people. It is also famously known as a living monument of European exploration, as explorer Augustus Charles Gregory and his party carved the arrival and departure dates of their 1855–1856 North Australian Expedition into its trunk. We walked along a wattle carpeted path to reach the tree next to the river.