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I was driving up to Cape Leveque to spend the night. However I made a little side detour towards Willies Creek on the way

This was one of those locations I’d recce’d via Google Maps before coming on this trip

I wasn’t really sure where I’d best be able to take off from to get some aerial shots of this location

In the end I decided to stop near where Manari Rd heads off to Willie Creek Pearl Farm from the main Cape Leveque road and shoot from a distance

Willies Creek

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Wriggle Room

With a quick side trip via Derby we headed to Broome to stay for a few nights

I’d be leaving the others (and the vans) for two days. I was driving up to Cape Leveque to stay a night at Kooljaman

Oh and this image so brings me memories of Broome – that very greeny blue water, the mangroves and the red sand – all beneath clear blue skies

Broome

Sitting under the stars with good company in the Winjana Gorge campground

Sitting Under the Stars

 

The main attraction of Windjana is the scenic gorge carved by the Lennard River, through the Napier Range

We were staying the night here in the national park

The walls of Windjana Gorge rise abruptly from the wide alluvial floodplain of the Lennard River, reaching about 100 metres high in some places. The 3.5-kilometre long gorge cuts through the limestone of the Napier Range; part of an ancient barrier reef

The Lennard River runs through the gorge in wet weather, but during the dry season it forms pools surrounded by trees and shrubs.

Honeycomb

Of course more crocodiles basking in the warm sun

Basking

Windjana

Looking down from above the gorge wall right near the entrance to the gorge

Columns

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The entrance to the gorge

Butress

Floodway

 

Tunnel Creek is located in the Napier Range and required driving on a pretty sketchy corrugated dirt road to reach

The natural cave through which Tunnel Creek flows is the major attraction here

With a length of approximately 750m that runs underground and it one of the oldest cave systems in Western Australia. The reef was first exposed around 250 million years ago and the first cave systems began to form, the present cave systems were created about 20 million years ago

Tunnel Creek

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Tunnel Reflections

There are large pools of water on the floor of the cave in which freshwater crocodiles live

It’s a little disconcerting walking along in the dark wading through these pools of water and to suddenly come across this in the water in front of you 🙂

I saw about half a dozen crocodiles on my way through the tunnel system

What Lurks Within

Reflected

Up Close and Wild