Lonely Planet – Roads Less Travelled

Roads Less Travelled - Australia

Lonely Planet author Kerry Lorimer tackles Australia's final frontier on a journey across the spectacular and unforgiving Kimberley, an untamed wilderness that's three times the size of England. She takes on one of the roughest, toughest bush tracks in Australia, joins Kimberley cowboys wrestling fear-crazed feral bulls, navigates the king tides and treacherous whirlpools of the Buccaneer Archipelago, and hunts for her supper in a croc-infested mangrove swamp. Along the way she encounters an Aboriginal elder, a plucky Australian Rules Football team, a randy little marsupial and one very enormous man-eating croc.

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Stories and photos from Kerry's trip

Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled Australia itinerary
Follow Kerry's itinerary through the Kimberley in far northwestern Western Australia.
Western Australia's Buccaneer Archipelago
Kerry is transported to an isolated fishing outpost, in Australia's Buccaneer peninsula.
Western Australia's Dampier Peninsula
Kerry heads to the Dampier Peninsula, for crabs, camels and questions.
The Derby Cup
Kerry gets into her best frock and lives it up with the locals at an outback race meeting.
Rattling along the Gibb River Road
Kerry befriends a six-metre croc and the world's smallest marsupial on the Gibb River Road.