Well, today is Barb's and Les' anniversary (31 yrs - but don't tell them I told you). It's also Jude's birthday. Happy Birthday, Sue!!! For those of you not familiar with our family, Sue is Judy's twin sister - I won't tell you how old Judy is or she'll kill me. But Sue is 51 today. The day started off with a fresh morning - 13 deg. at sunrise and maxed out at 38 deg. - pretty hot for a winter's day! As I said yesterday, the intention today was to do very little - that we did.
A very relaxing day was had by all. We finished the day off with a beautiful roast dinner. Early start tomorrow (Thursday) because we're planning to get to the Bungle Bungles by around midday if we can so we'll have to get away by about 0600.
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Sunrise at about 0700 over here (NT time). Small drive today - 330km. Being at a van park, we grabbed the opportunity to top up our water tanks and a delayed start after some grocery shopping. We set off about 1030.
The drive here was sensational with wall to wall escarpments of red weather worn rock cliffs I'd estimate to be 100's of metres high. Photos don't do these justice.
Our destination was the Gregory National park at a small camping area near the Bullita Station homestead (S 16 deg 6' 46"; E 130 deg 25' 25"). Google Maps reference is -16 6.7667,130 25.4167
It's at the end of a pretty dusty, rocky and bumpy 50km road. We dropped our tyre pressures which made a difference to the bone shakin going on. I can say our van has now been through the elements after having been to Fraser Island in the sand, salt and heavy rain. It has now been christened with dirt and dust so it's right of passage is complete and ready to take on the Gibb River Road in a couple of weeks time. We were please to find no dust leaks, however, the outside of our rig looks like it's been in the NT now.
The intention is to stay here for two nights so we can spend the day in between just chillin'. The campsite is on the banks of the East Baines River which have quite prominant signs alerting to the fact that crocs inhabit the area. Judy and I will be safe - not so sure about Barb and Les - they pitched their tent probably about 30 metres from water's edge.
The temp had climbed to 31 deg by day's end but dropped to the high teens by bedtime at around 2200.
A beautiful moonless but starry night ended the day.
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