Emerald left us with a great impression: we had a night and morning of much needed torrential rain and the tent gave us a good night sleep with no leaks! Brilliant!
The road out passed a huge paddock with wall to wall cotton bales waiting to be shipped out and another busting at the seams with commercially grown sunflowers. So that’s what goes on here! And fossicking for gemstones.
There were many flocks of birds above us heading out to the dams, lakes and newly filled creeks. The land sure does need the rain.
Spectacular Minerva Hills National Park on our right as we drove into Springsure. Plummeting cliffs and steep gorges. Seems like a great place to revisit.
Rolleston was bustling with caravans and trucks fuelling up and one or two watering holes were doing a trade in lunches. After diesel we kept on driving.
The rain turned to drizzle just after the Carnarvon Gorge turnoff and the clouds have lifted enough to see the distant gorge walls. The rain has made natures colours pop and it’s all looking very fertile.
Exciting drive into Arcadia - went a bit sideways in 4WD mode a couple of times in the waterlogged clay. Hope good ole Red Dog gets us there! (Yep!)
Great campsite with our private outback movie screen, fire pit, “Thunderbox” complete with fairy lights and Huntsman on the toilet roll ... couldn’t be happier!
No sooner had we set up in a pristine clearing than a herd of cows came charging through and curious big faces came snuffling and shuffling round our tent. Now the grassy dell looks like it’s been ploughed - so much for worrying about a few tyre tracks 😂
No-ones here so its perfect 👌 Rowan & Maddy are not open for camping, just the homestead accommodation so we have the bird watching lake and kayaks to ourselves. Camp oven roast again 😋
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