We had decided to take the caravan into the National park along the 100kms from Gregory Downs. Many people leave their vans parked and travel in their tow car for the day but we hard heard the road was freshly graded and one day was not enough time to explore all we wanted too.
The first 48kms until you reach the Century Mine are good mainly sealed roads, much on single lane which means if you met a road train you pull off on to the gravel.
The last 40kms were a bit corrugated but not too bad, just dusty. We had a 1 night booking at the National park campsite, thats all we could get. The camp site was right by all the hikes and the main gorge and river running by, it was lovely.
We did a 4km walk in the afternoon which took you up on to the island stack of the gorge,its elevated and you get a great view up the gorge.It was rather warm 30 deg but some of the walk was in the shade so quite manageable.Right by our van we saw this beautiful bird and a lady told us it was a purple crowned fairy wren which are not very common and quite hard to see. Over the next few days we did enjoy seeing them quite a lot in the same area, always 2 females and 1 male together. The tail was so blue and the head so purple.
Later in the afternoon I enjoyed a swim in the river Lloyd was not so keen, we had been told that the feshies(the freshwater crocs) are very timid and will keep away,they are not in this part of the river because of all the people, kayaks etc.
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| Sunset from our caravan |
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| Elevated view with river from the island stack walk |
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