So we’re about to head off into the Kimberley. Fuel is expensive, troopy load weight is an issue and we really shouldn’t be lugging around beer in glass, as we may need to carry the bottles out to the other side of the Gibb River Road. Solution? Beer in cans. Unfortunately, choice is limited and quality sadly lacking. So we had a tasting evening, to figure out what we’d actually be prepared to drink. Result? A block each of Tooheys New and Emu Bitter (plus some casks of De Bortelli’s).

If you’re ever in Broome, I’d highly recommend heading for beers and dinner at Matsos Brewery. Incredible beers - and this will sound kitsch, but they do a mango beer that is really, really nice - and even better, try it half/half with the chilli beer (called a ‘Chango’). I can’t believe we’re about to go from this to cans of EB.

We also met up with Nugget and Chloe, a couple in a 4WD van that had been pretty much on the same route as us since Kalbarri (I had a chat with him in the surf at Jakes), the Bluff (again, caught up in the surf) and now they were spending some time working in Broome to build up the funds before heading across the top into the NT.

Here’s a little visitor to our campsite one night in Broome:

We left Broome on the 17th June 2008, off to meet up with Matt T and Bec R on the Gibb River Road to travel the Kimberley and head across the top of WA and the NT with them.