Blogs from Boodjamulla National Park, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Day 112 - Burke & Wills Roadhouse to Lawn Hill Unsurprisingly the party mood went on long into the night, the cowboys n cowgals were certainly making the most of their well earned time off! There were some strange noises outside in the early hours but you just needed to push it to the back of your mind and nod back off to sleep! The alarm went off at 7am so we finished getting ready for the road trip then went to grab a shower. Late last night I decided to put half a load of washing on and to my delight it’s a) still hanging on the line in one piece and b) bone dry already! The dribble in the showers was hard work but we figured it was just getting us ready for ‘roughing ... read more

DAY 269 We awoke fairly early it was still dark, we could hear barking in the distance, we listened, it is not the normal barking of a dog and dingo’s don’t bark, they howl, we think that what we can hear are Barking Owls. If you listen one barks then the other one barks, we have been told that they come in pairs, we are definitely listening to a pair of Barking Owls. Andy is restless and he is keeping me awake but finally he says at 6.30 that he is going for a shower and a shave, great I can have a bit longer in bed and some peace and quiet, if I was being a really good wife, then I would get out of bed and put the kettle on so that Andy has ... read more

Fuelled up and drove to Winton, stopped for a hat pin for Alex and while Kate was trying to choose a glass heart keyring, bumped into Richard and Di (the Ulty owners from Townsville). They are camped out at Bladensburg NP right by the river. Followed them out of town and set up - beautiful. There were other kids swinging on a river and jumping in the river. Kate and Alex looked on dubiously until Alex finally plucked up the courage. He loved it. Kate decided to swing, but not go in the water, so only had her t-shirt and shorts on. She let go of the stick to readjust, and fell like a stone into the water. Screamed her head off, it was pretty cold and she didn’t want to get wet. I was so ... read more

On Saturday we headed out fairly early as we had a long drive to Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park via Burketown, Gregory Downs, and Adels Grove. About 30 kilometres out of Normanton, we stopped to have a look at the Burke and Wills - Camp 119, the most northerly camp of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition of 1860/61, which we found very interesting. Further along The Savannah Way , we also stopped to have a look at Leichardt Falls. The gravel road from Normanton to here was in good nick as it had recently been graded. To view Leichardt Falls we had to take a short track along Leichardt Creek, but it was only a couple of hundred metres off the main road - the falls weren't visible from the main road so it would ... read more