As we set off to explore another island Cara stopped to show us the Stinky Cheese Tree aka Noni or Morinda Citrifolia. A bushy green tree with fruits that look a little like custard apples – but are far from that. She picked a ripe fruit and passed it around and those who were game enough had a little nibble. Someone described it as a mix of roquefort with urinals which might give you an idea of what it smelt like but it is extremely high in Vitamin C and has been used by Aboriginal groups up here for food and medicine.

Along our path on another expedition to Jar Island we came across flowering Bachelors Buttons. A tiny but distinct flower on small dried stalks in a deep crimson colour.

Another eye catching flower we see is the Mulla Mulla – these are long purple flowers in clumps.

As we headed to explore the rock art on Bigge Island we came across the most delicate of white lace flowers – they seemed as if they had embroidered edges. Perhaps part of the passiflora family.

At Vansittart island art site we came across some hibiscus in flower. Inhabited by little insects on the inside and a slightly larger one on the outside.We watched a stick insect make its inconspicuous way over a rock.

This rather modest flower here has to survive in nitrogen poor soil so it excretes a sticky substance which catches some little insects and gobbles them up.

The Kimberely Heath – with its delicate pink tips which I saw at the top of the Mitchell Falls.

And finally Crab Eye seeds which Aboriginals use for beads and in percussion instruments but beware – chewing a single seed is enough to kill you !

Just a taste of the variety in the Kimberley.