Thursday 23rd April
We had a day to rest so decided to go up to the falls, these falls are in the township of Strahan and not far at all, we just took our time and then enjoyed the rest of the day chilling out at the cabin, weather was overcast and cooling down. Nice day though.
Beautiful bush tracks.
Bush stream, very brown from all the tannin.
Fungi
Stream
Hogarth Falls.
Rocks and Moss
Reflection in stream.
Punga or Fern tree.
Reflection of the retreat.
Saturday 18th April
Woke to a lovely sunny day, I was up early and went for a bush walk with in the grounds and came across heaps of signs, one I have posted, the rest were telling about the Bandicoot, wallaby, Echidnas, etc, was very interesting. After breakfast went to check out the beach, the kids have gone into some markets that they wanted to check out, both being chef’s and cooks that is great for them. The airport is right by the sea, watching a plane come into land as if it is going to hit the tree tops is quiet interesting.
Bush walking as I do.
The family area’s and BBQ
The pool area.
Seven Mile Beach
Plane coming into land.
Loved these clouds.
17th April Thursday thru to 20th Sunday
Went over early and had a hot shower before everyone else got up. Got brekky and sat under the tree. Storm had gone, mozzies were back, and these are big ones, holly hell they can bite. Bite you thru your clothes; I have big welts on me. We headed to Moura, stopped along the way and saw the mine. We fueled up, emptied toilet, and topped up with some food items at Food Works. Going to Chain Lagoons, on our way we called into Theodore, what a lovely town only small on the Dawson River and a free camping spot. We are now on the Leichhardt H’wy heading south, had a lunch stop here and then got to Chain Lagoons and they had a fence across the road to get to the big lagoon, so we took a bush road thinking we could get thru, ha we got in a tricky spot, but with a bit of work we got back out onto the H’wy. So off we go to plan B and onto Lake Murphy, well what a neat surprise, so green, lovely camp spots so much better, no water in the lake but that’s not a problem, we loved it here and stayed 3 nights, did lots of walks, night shooting, sitting around the camp fire, was lovely, we had Apostle birds hanging around camp, they are so funny, chattering all the time. Our friends are here as well. We spent the next few days just exploring and enjoying the time to relax.
Open Cut Mine at Moura
Apostle bird, they are so social and funny with their antic’s
Babbler with insect in mouth
A Red Necked kangaroo
Apostle Bird
Apostles birds
Our camp spot at Lake Murphy.
Mowed pathways to Toilet block
Nice big camp spots
Our friends and us on our walk over to see the creek, which had water in it.
Empty Lake Murphy, hard to imagine that this is the lake floor.
Judy's Trekabout 