We started the day with a walk on the “Savannah Walk” before we headed down the road for Tunnel Creek. It was fascinating to see all of those bower birds pop out of the bush again once the campers moved out.
At tunnel creek we changed into our swimming gear and head torches to make the “walk” through the tunnel. You clamber over some of those big old pink and white rocks from the Devonian era first (just like those we saw at Windjana) and then we were into the tunnel where we alternately waded, walked and swam depending on water depth. There is an opening in the centre of the 750m tunnel where the daylight comes in briefly. The reflections were stunning. In one area there is a huge domed ceiling with bats circling. In another there is a flow type cave feature with water from a spring cascading over it into the tunnel. So beautiful. Stalactites too. We didn’t take our cameras into the water area so have no photos of any of this, or of the beautiful water monitor that we enjoyed watching sunning himself on the other side while we warmed up before making our way back through the tunnel. Ev and Craig turned up while we were at the end of the tunnel and we made our way back together. Their torches were much stronger than ours and helped to show the freshwater croc on the rock part way back really clearly.
This road through is extremely scenic and a bit rough in places. If I was sending someone to one road to see a variety of boabs this would be the road. Large and small. Couples, families, schools. Fat ones and skinny ones.
We headed on down the road towards Fitzroy Crossing, stopping to check out a possible campsite for tomorrow at the RAAF Boab quarry. Beautiful spot where water has dammed in the old quarry and boabs dot the landscape. Lots of people camping but lots of space available if you don’t want to be close to the water.
We continued on our way, reaching Fitzroy Crossing and shopping for fuel and essentials ( fruit and veg!! Hooray! Milk! Bread!-such luxury) before checking in for the night camping at Fitzroy River Lodge.
We had dinner with all 6 of us there and a delicious meal, but I suspect that my Thai fried rice had lots of MSG as I got through a lot of water overnight.
- 130 l @ $160.9/l=$196.19 ( with coles discount)
- 161 km
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