Featured Image: Me peering at the pier in Derby

From the Australian East Coast to the West coast (Mackay, QLD to Derby, WA, via Darwin, NT) is about 4,500 kms. Probably 5,000 kms or more if you go the way we did.

It’s good to be back on the coast.

One thing we have noticed as we transitioned from the outback to the coast is a change in termite habitat. The huge termite mounds are still huge but have gradually changed from being really tall & a deep red dirt colour to really short stocky and sloppy shaped with almost a baby poo brown colour as we travelled closer to the coast.

More Boab tree fun on the way today. Click on the captions below.

Oh! Look! A Boab Tree! Can we stop? Na.

and then…

Just come forward a few feet so I can take your picture.

11 metre tides up this way. Biggest tide range in Australia. We’re camped right on the coast (at high tide) and about 20km from the water at low tide. There is a huge expanse of mudflats all about.

Sunset after dinner near the pier at Derby at high tide.

We’ll be here for a couple of days to do some touristy things. You know, washing, shopping, tinkering, buying more diesel & possibly a touristy tour or two.

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