Adels Grove

 

20/6/2021 Wow Wow WoW

Long bumpy drive in, over hot country with red rocks and spinifex. The trees on this country prove Mother Nature’s resilience. There are lots of termite mounds made of red dirt that look like people standing in the paddock some have even been dressed in t-shirts and shorts some in a Christmas theme.  My favourite a hard hat and singlet (gotta love a sense of humour). . We saw our first dingo. We crossed the Gregory and O'Shannassy rivers. Huge paper bark Gums and a lush tropical understory, beautiful!

Got to Adels Grove camping ground. The grove is amazing, super shady and big sites. The Grove is one stop shop. There is fuel (most of the time) reception is OK at the kitchen. There is a fix it shop, big shout out to Big Shane for welding our broken shocker plate. You can hire a canoe or take a boat cruise down the billabong. We did both

       

                                           

                                                    

                                                                            Big Shane

There is a spectacular water hole at the camp ground for swimming there are a few fresh water crocs but they tend to leave you alone. NO NOT PROVOKE THEM.

The real feature of this area is Lawn Hill National Park. The water is amazing.  

                                   

We did the lookout walk and Indarri Falls walk. When you get to the falls its strip off and dive in but not before you mud up! The indigenous dreamtime story tells that you must not enter the water before you cover yourself with mud otherwise  you could anger the rainbow serpent who made the water flow , so when in Rome!!!. We spent the whole day swimming and eating here.  There are Archer fish in the water and they spat water in our  eyes! We observed the snapping turtles and also the diamond headed turtle. The bird life is amazing to many to name. The second day we hired canoes for the afternoon and paddled the upper and lower gorge, so peaceful. Maya paddled for me as canoeing just does not seem to be my forte. Adam and Nash in the other canoe. We did a walk to Wild dog dreaming it is a significant cultural place for the local people here with art gallery dating back 1000’s of years. The bridge was out so we had to take a swim over to the walking trail (love that) Nash spotted our first croc about  2 meters long.

We have discovered that we have the NBN travelling with us. NBN stands for Nash Bird Nerd. He has become quite the bird spotter and picking up on all the details that distinguish one species from the other. Go Nash. 

Todays feature creature is 'Stanley" the Jackie Lizard.