Day 82 - Fitzroy Crossing to Derby

Another gorgeous day with a quite cool morning and sunshine all the way (263km) saw us on the Savannah Way, between Fitzroy Crossing and Derby.  The road was excellent and passed through mile after mile of rolling plains with one small range, the Erskine Range, bringing some relief.  It did so only for the five or so minutes it took for us to cross it.

We did a quick tour of Derby which is a port on King Sound.  The salt flats surrounding the port are very extensive.  While it was high tide, it was hard to tell where the water started and the flats ended, so close was the colour of the water to that of the flats.  Derby has a very shallow port so most of the exports from this area (live cattle) are now done from Broome, 220km away.

There was not a lot to photograph, save for the boab trees.  We have seen hundreds of them today and some of them are truly huge.  We did get up close and personal with one this morning.  We sought its shade while we had morning tea.

270614 Morning tea under a boab tree

270614 Our unit dwarfed by a boab tree

270614 Difficult to park the van today - behind a large tree - plenty of gratuitous advice