On the road into WA

Last night we camped in the northern most corner of Gregory National Park, near the town of Timber Creek. The campsite was right along the Victoria River, famous for its abundance of crocodiles, both fresh water and salt. We went to look at it this morning and noticed many places where they could have crawled out of the water towards our site. Luckily we discovered all this on our way out of town, so to speak.

After a brief stop at the Gregory Tree, a large boab inscribed with the dates an explorer named Gregory set up camp at the site, we were on our way west towards the border. Upon entering Western Australia, we had to stop at a manned quarantine check point and show the nice officers that we had no fruit or veggies in the car. They are also very concerned with people accidentially spreading cane toads into WA, so I understand the formality of it all, it just seemed a bit strange when there are no other people or buildings around for hundreds of kilometers.

Once in WA we stopped in Kununurra to fill up on gas before deciding to take a small detour up to Wyndham because the guidebooks told us there was a crocodile farm there and we still haven't seen any crocs. After driving about 60km to the town, which turned out to be quite run-down and depressing, we finally found the croc farm. Unfortunately, the woman working there was closing up early for the day, at noon when they were supposed to be open until one. Even this came as a shock as the books also told us it was open until 4 during the dry season. However, after a look at the place (also run-down and depressing like the town) we figured that no one probably goes there and they can close up whenever they feel like. At least there was a 20 meter plaster croc in town. An unfortunate detour, but we should get a chance to see some crocs in Broome. Camped at a reststop tonight, but its nice enough. Its intended as an overnight stop becuase there aren't really any caravan parks or anything along this section of the road.