Thread: Warning for those heading to the Kimberley

Originally Posted by Redback

A Range Rover you say.......mmmmmm what type

Baz.

1997 P38 Range Rover 4.6 HSE

Originally Posted by PhilipA

I spoke to the manager quite a bit last July.

She and her husband are getting old and both had been severely injured in a helicopter crash a couple of years ago. They spent many months in hospital after the crash and the shop was closed for a while. It was the first tourist helicopter flight from the store.

They are great people who served the best coffee on the Gibb, made home made cakes, and organised an outside area with tables and umbrellas.

They also ran film nights for the locals. The shop is owned by the Iminji community who will no doubt try to find replacements, but The lady told me the people the community got when they were injured were no good, so they were asked to come back.
The fuel was cheaper than Mt Barnett, and the service was much better with no "don't care backpackers". I bought some gas there and the bloke weighed it out for me. You don't see that very often any more.
Maybe a good job for a couple if you like living in a Local community.

Regards Philip A

We were up there in 2008 not long after the helicopter crash, the couple running the place were very pleasant, young family from Melbourne. Would be an interesting lifestyle change for a year. We had a petrol vehicle that trip and they only sold diesel so had to carry fuel for Derby to Mt Barnett anyway.
Last year when we got in to Mt Barnett the freezer was empty and the shelves were almost bare, would only be worse with the Imintji store gone. Fuel's not the only thing you need up there, we went 26 days between grocery shops at one point. Fixed a bloke's Pajero at Drysdale River and his wife paid me with a tomato!