For Jetsetter magazine, Nick Walton embarks on a journey from El Questro Homestead in Western Australia’s remote Kimberley region to Bullo River Station in the Northern Territory’s East Kimberley.
“If you revel at the chance to delve into nature blessed with spectacular beauty and unique wildlife, the Australian Top End, which stretches from the Indian Ocean in Western Australia to the Coral Sea in Queensland, just might be the destination you never knew you needed to visit.
An incredibly varied landscape shaped by tumultuous seasons that alternate between a fiery furnace and a monsoon’s deluge, the Top End offers a chance to commune with flora and fauna found nowhere else on Earth, and to delve into a place that has broken hearts and backs, tested sanity, and inspired poets and dreamers.
However, you can explore this challenging country in comfort thanks to a clutch of historic, indulgent lodges and stations, the first of which, El Questro, a member of Luxury Lodges of Australia, we arrived at earlier in the day after a 90-minute drive through a rocky, undulating moonscape from the tiny airport at Kununurra.”
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