There’s Nowhere Like The Outback
We were lucky we got our flat tyre as we drove into the Mount Barnett Roadhouse on Western Australia’s notorious Gibb River Road. Luckier still, three burly guys changed our tyre, with dire warnings to get to the Over the Range service station to fix it, pronto. Otherwise, well… I guess that’s why our rented four-wheel drive came with a satellite phone, an emergency locator, and ten gallons of water.
My wife, Jean, and I had wanted to experience one of the Englishspeaking world’s most remote places that non-explorers can navigate on their own: the Kimberley region, an area in the northwestern corner of Australia much bigger than Germany or Japan, with a population of just 34,000 people. And in May 2018, we got the chance to visit.
The Gibb is an iconic, tyre-ripping gravel road that runs 410 miles through the region along, as its name suggests, the Gibb
