El Questro to Home Valley Station (24-27 May)

Only 50km up the road from El Questro is Home Valley Station.  We had to do what we thought was going to be a large river crossing of the Pentecost.  To our dismay it was not so impressive.  Again the lack of a decent wet season. 

Most of the Stations have camping at their main Homestead area and then bush camping a few kilometres away.  We are camping down at the bush camp right beside the Pentecost River.  It is a tidal river and the extremes of low and high tide are amazing.  We had been here for two days before we saw Sedrick the Salty (3.5 metre crocodile), but he was a long way off luckily.

 

 

Drove 16km west up the Gibb River Road to do a walk to Bindoola Falls and Nyarli Lagoon, unfortunately there was no waterfall but a nice pool to swim in after scrambling down the huge sandstone slabs of layered rock.  Saw a fresh water croc floating around in the pool and a lot of fish. 

 

 

The boys have again tried to catch the all elusive barramundi with no luck.  And fortunately the croc hasn’t caught them.

Spoilt ourselves with a meal at the Restaurant, which was very nice (and very expensive). 

Moving on tomorrow towards Drysdale Station.