I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveller episode 778. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about creeks and

crocodiles, vertical waterfalls, and a horizontal one, billibongs, and the bungle bungles as we go to the Kimberly in Western Australia.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk

about Western Australia. I'd like to welcome back to the show James Schomburg from Adelaide as you may recall

since we just did an episode on Adelaide who's come to talk to us about Western Australia

James welcome back to the show.

Thanks Chris really looking forward to this.

It was a holiday, my wife and I,

we're lucky to do in July when the borders were open in Western Australia

and it's a magical place.

Well, and I should just say for the listeners, we normally don't bring people back like a month after they've

been on.

I used to have a six month rule, but James nailed that episode so well that I really was looking forward to talking to you again. Thank you. So we're

talking about Western Australia and I think to put it to the map we're talking about

the Western part of Australia. Is there anything more complicated we want to talk about than that?

No, except the area I'm specifically going to talk about is the Kimberly. That's the region, that's its name, it's called the Kimberly, and it's in the, so

Western Australia is obviously west, it's the largest state in Australia, and the

north part of Western Australia abutting Northern Territory is the Kimberly.

And the Kimberly's a massive area.

I did some research, it encompasses about 420,000 square kilometers. So it's roughly three times

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