The heat gets pretty intense quickly out here, with this in
mind we decided to get up early and do the climb to one of the lookouts called
the island stack. It was a 3km walk with a 200m very steep rock stair climb. I
was feeling pretty good and made it up only stopping once to catch my breath.
After taking the obligatory photos at the lookout we did the 1.6km circuit
around the top. The views were absolutely magnificent, but it was really hot, I
ended up taking my shirt off as there was no one else around.
On the way down
all the day trippers were starting to make their way up – we had to stop a few
to tell them about the difficulty of the climb and how hot it was , as they
were walking in thongs and had no water with them!
When we got back the couple who had set up next to us,
Adrienne & Guy, came over for a chat. Turns out they are doing something
very similar to us in the same sort of time frame. This is their first time out
on a 4wd holiday, so were very keen to get some tips from us. It is so nice to
meet such lovely people on your travels.
We packed up while we chatted and then moved the car to the
day area.
We headed down to the river and hopped in the boat and rowed up to the
waterfall. Let me correct that – Iain rowed us to the waterfall while I held
the Go Pro on the front of the boat. We got some fantastic footage that we hope
to make into a you tube clip. When we got down to the waterfalls we had some
fun with the Go Pro, Iain was paddling us into waterfalls, we got footage of
the numerous fish that were swimming around us, as well as just general mucking
around and having fun.
When we got back we packed up the boat and I headed for a
nice cold shower while Iain packed the rest of the car – yes I am spoilt. When
I got back the poor man had sweat pouring off him, so he went for a quick dip
and I did the last of the internet stuff. We then realised we had been having
eway too much fun and it was 2.30. We hadn’t eaten so we stopped off at the
kiosk and grabbed ice-creams and drinks and headed for the road.
The road was very bad and we realised we were not going
anywhere fast and as it was so late we headed for a camp spot called Kingfisher
camp about 120km away. The photos in the Camp 5 book looked very nice, but we
are never lulled into a false sense of security out here as you just never
know. When we pulled up to the office it was dry and dusty and we thought we
were in for a rough night. After paying for the night and getting directions to
the camp sight we headed off. As we came up the gully we were confronted with
beautiful shady, grassy sites with loads of wallabies hopping around and not
very many people – it was lovely. We set up on the opposite side of the camp to
everyone else, and I wandered over to the toilet block. The taps on the basin
had hot and cold, so out of interest I turned on the hot tap – THERE WAS HOT
WATER! I was very excited. We spent the evening taking photo’s of wallabies and
just relaxing.
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