Enzo’s guide to the Kimberly Ranges.

Ah the Kimberlys!

Vast areas of rocky terrain and desert in northern WA; containing some of the oldest rocks on earth. (according to the Sparrow, whose invariably right on such matters). It is unusually green at the moment following drought breaking winter rain.

There are really only two seasons:
The ‘dry season’ includes the time normally known as winter. It rarely rains. The weather is warm and tourists flock to the region to see its grandeur.
The ‘wet season’ includes summer. It rains frequently and often torrentially. It’s stinking hot. Roads can be cut by flooding for weeks or months at a time. You don’t go there in ‘the wet ‘unless you have to.

The area has its problems quite part from the weather and the crocs. It has a large underprivileged indigenous population, with many social issues.

There are very few towns separated by very large distances, one main sealed highway and hundreds of kilometres of dirt road. It’s difficult to capture the scale of it all in a photograph. Crossing it on the main highway takes about 1,000km of driving.

These are some of its colours.