Only 15 kms on a mostly excellent dirt road (found out it had been graded only a few days earlier so not time for corrugations to form) to Windjana Gorge National Park.

Got into the campground (excellent; water, solar hot showers, toilets, few people and two bower bird courting bowers) and lay down for a rest. Soon Christine and Linda returned from the Windjana Gorge 500 m away where they had been intending to swim but didn’t as there were half a dozen freshwater crocodiles sunning themselves on the beach!

Linda was ever the geologist and gushed about the force of water that was needed to roll a boulder the sizer of a small house into the gorge. The ranger told us later that in the wet season the campground and the plains for kilometers around go knee deep in water, in August they were dry and dusty except for the pools in the Fitzroy River around the gorge.

We pooled our food and cadged the use of another family’s campfire to cook our dinner. And then to bed.