We started our day with the activities at El Questro which we had booked. Ev and Craig went off to ride horses at 7 am and the rest of us tootled down to “the jetty” to catch the Chamberlain Gorge cruise at 9:30.
The cruise was informative and beautiful-a totally different experience from the water compared to above the gorges at the lookouts. We saw the short eared rock wallabies again and both types of croc. They also have archer fish here, and we had fun again giving them a chance to shoot pellets of feed from our fingers. What clever little things they are! There were also Sooty Grunters, catfish and barramundi.
After the cruise we had a quick shower and filled our water container up, and then had a croc burger for lunch before we headed away from El Questro.
The first 6km of the road was great but then came some of the worst corrugations we have seen -to the Pentecost crossing. This crossing can be a real problem early on the season, but we are late enough to find the water level lower than that on the crossings into El Questro, so it gave none of us any problem. We did have to wait quite a while for Al and Zita to come and cross it with us as Al is being very careful with his AVan trying not to shake it to pieces too much.
We headed onwards, stopping at the Cockburn Range lookout and admiring the views of the capped ranges in the background. We even had a brief moment of phone coverage!
Then we continued on towards Ellenbrae Station. They serve their world renowned scones until 4 pm and we arrived at 3:59 pm so Trevor was delighted to be able to take advantage of them.
It wasn’t far back to the campsite with plenty of space for camping and flushing toilets and donkey showers. Al and Zita arrived before dark, which meant they found us easily.
We have a fire tonight (bush TV). Despite the warm day it will probably be cooler later on. We are all staying away from the heated side of the fire.
Luvapuzzle 