The Long Road Back

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So you are up in Broome, middle of nowhere. Where do you go next? Some people continue on into even REMOTER areas (hard to believe!) as they travel towards Darwin or Alice Springs. Thousands of kilometers of remote and difficult outback. Many people fly back to civilization. But a select few of us chose to finish with the bus back. The tour company has to retrieve their vehicles, so they offer pretty cheap seats to cover the 2000+km distance back to Perth. We had a very long set of 3 days ahead of us.

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Cable Beach

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My first full day in Broome was relatively uneventful. I wandered the streets of the town, relaxed in a cafe and figured out my plans for the next day. In the evening I returned to the hostel where a few of us were staying. There, one person from the tour and I decided to go see a movie in town. But this wasn’t to be at any old theatre, this would be at Broome’s deck chair cinema.

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Broome-Town

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By mid-day we departed from Karijini National Park. I honestly had a fantastic time exploring the gorges – it is such a remote and difficult to reach part of Australia that few get to see it, and it’s both a shame and a blessing. It’s too bad many won’t see one of the more spectacular regions before it succumbs to mining (there are extensive operations in the region, even in the NP), but it was great to be in a place that we largely had to ourselves. It’s the remote, peaceful exploration that really makes you feel miles removed from EVERYTHING. I wasn’t able to get a great picture of the surrounding areas, but as we left the park I took a quick snap of the low mountains we had driven through.

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Phew!

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I’m not sure about you, but I’m thankful to be finished with the gorge part of this trip (writing-wise, I could spend days more exploring them in person!). They are a PAIN to photograph and to edit said photos. The lighting is terrible and the red hues tend to blend like crazy. I did find my new camera handled the conditions far better than my previous, and shooting with RAW files helped bring a lot of highlights and shadows under control as I could tweak the photo quite a bit more on the computer than previously. Anyways, now things head back towards the glorious Western Australian beaches.