Zebeede Springs- The Gibb River Road Australia
We recommend getting to Zebedee springs early: Opens 7am -12pm! Run to the further part and score yourself a little enclosed warm nature bath with a mini spring waterfall.
If you ever make it to Zebedee Springs on the Gibb River Road, get there early.
It only opens to the general public between 7am and 12pm, and by the time the gate lets people through there's already a line of four-wheel drives waiting, a bit like queuing at the shops except everyone's covered in red dust. You have to drive through a creek crossing to reach it. Then, once you're in, run. Head all the way to the back and you can score yourself a little enclosed bath with a waterfall, and you can sit there and soak for as long as you like. The reason it closes at midday is that the helicopter crowd comes in after that, so the morning is the window that belongs to people like us.
The best part of going somewhere multiple times with different groups is that you learn where the good spots are. And the reason I know that is because for a while, taking people here was the whole point.
When Mitch and I owned our tour company, this waterfall was the dream. It started as a vision of getting a bus, filling it with swags and backpackers, and driving people out to places like this. And it actually happened. We ended up in the middle of the remote Kimberley with a group of travellers we got to connect with, laugh with, and dream with. Standing in a hot spring at the back of Zebedee, with a busload of people we'd brought there ourselves, was a very literal version of a dream coming true.
So when I tell someone to follow their dreams, I'm not saying it to sound nice on a caption. I'm saying it because I've watched it be possible. But I want to be honest about what that actually means, because I think people hear "follow your dreams" and picture things getting easy. That's not what happened. Having a clear picture of the life I wanted didn't make anything easier. It made it possible. There's a difference. The vision gave me something to aim at, and then Mitch and I still had to put every single step in place to get there. The research, the vehicle, the website, the logistics, the early starts, the creek crossings. None of that skipped itself because we could picture the ending.
That's the same pattern behind everything I've built since. I designed a 3-in-1 beach bag because I had a picture of a beach trip that didn't involve carrying five separate things. I'm building CULO Village inside Canva because I could see what a founder's body of work should look like once it stops disappearing into a feed. Every one of those started as a clear vision, and every one of them still needed the unglamorous work underneath to become real.
Stagger Inn doesn't operate anymore, but I still come back to this video. It's proof that the vision worked, and proof that the vision was never the hard part. The hard part was showing up to do the ordinary steps, over and over, until the picture in my head became a group of strangers laughing in a waterfall in the outback.
So yes, keep following your dreams. Just know the dream is the direction, not the doing. And if you do drive out to Zebedee, get there early and run to the back.