We had a quiet start despite a very early wake up ( compliments of the small noisy children camping next to us).
Al and Zita had already gone when we went past the resort on our way out. We passed them quite a long way along the GRR just as we were thinking about morning tea. Not long after that we passed Queen Victoria’s Head as we drove along!!
They didn’t want to stop as they needed to be in Fitzroy Crossing tonight. We met them again after we had set up camp in the campground at Windjana and walked in to the information board to figure out our plan.
The campsite we chose was (once again) in the generator area. There was so much more space available and shade too.
We decided to do the gorge walk this afternoon. After having lunch under our tree with a number of bower birds (making their mad muttering noises) we headed off.
There is a cage to deposit live cane toads in here. You can catch them and put them in the cage and they are taken away and disposed of humanely.
I can’t imagine transporting a cane toad back from my walk in a plastic container. I can’t imagine actually catching one. Apparently you should pick them up by the back legs from behind.
As we were just into our walk, starting the count of freshies spotted and marvelling at the strange rock we met Al and Zita again.
They were on their way out. The rock is formed from ancient reef here and there are some good examples of ancient sea creatures to be seen
There is a very strange type of rock here. It looks like modelling clay. Some of it is quite pink with black dots-and would fit in nicely in one of those black and pink bathrooms of the 60s.
The cliffs above are the usual black and red
The walk was shady and much easier walking than we have had recently. But it was frustrating to have such great looking water nearby and not be cooling off in it. It was also annoying to find an “end of trail” sign on a clearly shortened trail. We had been hoping for a waterfall at the end, but there was just a sign and you could see where the trail used to go on. So we turned around and headed back.
Interesting bugs were found.
And new flowers coming out on the hakeas(??) we saw these in much stronger flower as we were emerging from Mornington. Very impressive!
There was another bowerbird giving away the position of his impressive bower on the way out, and we also met Craig and Ev just going in. They had located us in the campground and we found them parked right next door when we got back to the camper.
We settled down to rehydrate and watched all the campers trickling in and encroaching on our space bit by bit.
Tonight we thought we would eat chilli con carne reclaimed from Al and Zita’s freezer, but it turned out to be bolognaise sauce. We are down to our last litre of long life milk. Despite the fact that we have 3 nights booked here we will probably only stay tonight and then head on to Tunnel Creek in the morning and on to Fitzroy Crossing. Hopefully we can restock a bit there.
- 144km
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