The Kimberley: Day 6

Today we rocked up to El Questro station, or El Shiny Town as its also known. They have 1 million acres of land but only 8000 cattle which they move around randomly and pretend to be a working cattle station as opposed to the overpriced flashy resort they are so they don't lose their lease. Its $15 per person per night just to camp here and if you want to stay in the homestead its $2000, minimum stay two nights.

El Questro Gorge

Nope, my finger didn't slip on the zeros then, its two thousand dollars per night. I have no idea what this will get you but for that price I'd want topless waitresses and oral sex.

Earlier in the day we'd had lunch at a lookout that randomly had chairs and tables positioned in the middle of nowhere where, apparently, the posh folks from Home Valley station went to watch the sunset. As I stuffed the Biggest Sandwich In The World into my mouth I wondered how much they paid to get up here for their sunset which would no doubt involve champagne and a tablecloth. I bet it was no where near what the El Questro posh folks paid for theirs.

El Shiny Town; Note The Helicopter In The Background

After a quick walk through El Questro Gorge and a mad dash up an intense 4WD track to Branco's Lookout for nibbles at sunset (check us out, how El Questro are we?) it was time for hot showers and cold beers and a quick talk why we had to beat the Connections tour bus to Zebedee Hot Springs the next day, there were about 20 of them and there's limited space in the pools. No worries, as Tom pointed out they wouldn't go very fast with flat tyres... No, apparently this wasn't an option, we just had to get up early. Oh what a fucking surprise.

Later on I caught sight of myself in the full length mirror in the shower; I was getting proper fat, I looked three months gone. It must be all that Proper Food, it must be just sitting in my stomach not digesting because my body hasn't got a fucking clue what to do with it.

The diet, as always, would start tomorrow.

written by

Koala Bear on July 22, 2007 from Gibb, Australia

from the travel blog: Sod Off Great Big Mission Round Oz

tagged RoadTrip, LovinIt and Kimberley

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