The town of Windmills, NSW

Another day in Gilgandra, NSW which is known as the town of Windmills.  You just see windmills here and there though.

A couple of pubs in the town.

A Church.

A species of the Boab Tree which holds it's water in the truck.

Fitzroy Crossing WA

Back to travelling Western Australia 2015

Fitzroy Crossing is a small town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 400 kilometres east of Broome and 300 kilometres west of Halls Creek. It is approximately 2,524 kilometres from the state capital of Perth.

The photo below is of the old crossing, once it was the only way to go via vehicle to Derby and Broome.  The second photo is the river bed but of course in the 'big wet' the water flows.

Two houses at Fitzroy Crossing.  It's a nice little town with one IGA Supermarket.  Hospital, Court of Law which is being built (a new one).

Part of the Caravan Park.  The Amenities being up on the hill, you can just see the building.  The drainage from the showers and washing machines comes down the hill, all the way around thus keeping the grass green.

Just up the road, the sunrise the morning we left.

On our way to Broome WA

The boab tree which I posted when travelling.

Nearly to Broome, just 166 kms to go.

This is Willare Bridge where fuel can be bought for the last leg of the journey to Broome.

Kununurra, Western Australia.

Kununurra is a town in far northern Western Australia.  It's on the easterly aspect of the Kimberley Region, approximately 37 klm from the border with the Northern Territory.
Kununurra has an abundance of fresh water, conserved by the Ord River Diversion dam and the main Ord River Dam.
Tropical agriculture crops are grown along with Sandalwood.  Previous post on Sandalwood at Kununurra [ here ]

 Kununurra is 3,040 klm (1,889 mi) from Perth, Western Australia.

We stayed in a Caravan Park for several days in Kununurra.
If we didn't go out in the afternoon I would sit outside under the awning in my new chair bought in Darwin and fall to sleep.  It was rather humid and the temperature range was 33 to 35 degC in the day and about 17degC at night.

Part of the caravan park and Mirima National Park, known also Hidden Valley.

Lake Kununurra and the park before it.

Zoomed in to take this shot.

A large Boab Tree.

More of the grounds and boab trees

Boab Tree, WA

Boab trees grow in Northern Australia mainly in the Kimberley Region usually having a bottled shaped trunk.

Notes taken from Wikipedia.
Adansonia gregorri, commonly known as the boab, is a tree in the family Malvaceae.  As with other baobabs, it is easily recognised by the swollen base of it's trunk, which forms a massive caudes, giving the tree a bottle like appearance.  Endemic to Australia, boab occur in the Kimberley region of Western Australia (WA), and east into the Northern Territory (NT).  It is the only baobab to occur in Australia, the others being native to Madagascar (six species) and mainland Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (two species). Boab ranges from 5 to 15 meters in height, usually between 9 and 12 meters, with a broad bottle shaped trunk.  It's trunk base may be extremely large, trunks with a diameter of over five metres have been recorded.  A. gregorii is deciduous, losing it's leaves during the dry winter period and producing new leaves and large white flowers between December and May.

The Boab Prison Tree, Derby WA, is a large hollow Adansonia gregorii (Boab) tree just shouth of Derby, WA.  It's reputed to have been used in the 1890's as a lockup for indigenous Australian prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing.  It is now a tourist attraction.

In fact, there is no evidence that the Derby Prison Tree was ever used for holding prisoners.

The photo was taken on the way to Broome,WA