Ian's Photos of Lawn Hill

Ian took these great photos, hope you enjoy them.

Amazing walks around Lawn Hill

Robyn and friends enjoying the sunset - got back just on dark.

Fresh Water Crocodile sunny himself on a log - we wanted to see one before we left.

Look at that colour!  Great swimming, we swam every afternoon.

Big Varmit Pig wandering around.

BUCKET LIST - Lawn Hill

If you are adding to your Bucket List for places to travel in Australia

Add these three:
Carnarvon Gorge
Porcupine Gorge
Lawn Hill Gorge

All the words we applied to Carnarvon apply to Lawn Hill - so hard to imagine, when you are bumping along the gravel roads (not too bad) and this OASIS is out here.

Such a great place to bring the kids for a camping holiday.  (All the grey haired kids love it too).

These photos taken on my little camera - didn't want to take the good camera on the canoe, but could have done that.  Will upload Ian's photos on next post.

Corella Farm Stay ( drive from Hughendon, almost to Julia Creek)

Decided that we didn't want to compete with the hundreds on the river at Julia Creek (near Highway and the Road Trains all night, so popped into Corella Farm Stay for two nights.

Here we competed with every farm animal imaginable and trains all night!!  Pretty good though, we had lots of fun.

Animals at Corella Farm
Sebastian the Goat (who ate some of our camp 7 book - only a corner or two and our moroccan seasoning - a real character, not the usual pesky billy goat.)
Geese
Turkeys
Peacocks and hens
Chooks
Ducks
guinea Fowl
Cows and Calves
Donkey and Horses - next door.

Nice hot showers from an artesian bore - no cold needed.

Eric the owner lit a campfire for the two or three campers each night.

Two Japanese girls - WOOFERS -  Willing Workers on Organic Farms were staying for a month and working on the Organic egg production.  They were nurses!!  What a change for them from very sterile nursing wards.

Porcupine National Park and the Betton

Just loved this great National Park - the little Bettons were really gorgous - I think they may also be known as kangaroo rats - they have a little bark and will bark at you if you touch them!!  Glad they are assertive :)

Betton - Kangaroo Rat, very cute and quite tame

How would you like to camp on these volcanic Rocks?  We didn't, they are on a lookout on the drive to Porcupine Gorge

Swimming hole here but very cold

Land of the DINASAURS - leaving Longreach, via gravel road for Muttaburra, to Koorooinya Falls

LAND OF THE DINASAURS

Phew, did not comprehend how many fossils, dinasaur bones have been dug up around here.  Muttaburra has the Muttaburrasauras etc.

Muttaburrasaurus celebrated in metal

Muttabuttasauras

Celebrating the Shearer in glorious metal bits from the shearing shed 

Wood for the campfire

Peaceful reflections while cooking in camp oven

Sapphire, through Barcaldine to Longreach

Phew the Longreach free Apex Camping Spot is a great resource for travellers, however very crowded, like a city!

We only stayed here to see the QANTAS museum and also the STOCKMAN'S HALL OF FAME.

Both well worth the stay.

Free Apex Camp out of Longreach - a veritable CITY of campers - someone counted over 130 vans, camper trailer etc!

Sunset over the Thompson river which is at the back of the Apex Camp

From Carnarvon to Rolleston, Springsure, Emerald to Saphire

Leaving beautiful Carvarvon, we headed north on the back gravel road.  Very interesting.  Large crops growing here, so hopped out and took a few 'beans' off the  3 metre bushes - it was Chia!

Very isolated interesting farms along this route.

Emerald a large and very well set out town with lovely gardens, decided we didn't want to camp under the bridge with traffic going over all night so headed down the Capricorn Highway for 43 kms before a turn off to Sapphire.

Decided that we didn't want to collect a heaps of stones with tiny emeralds, so didn't do any prospecting here.  Tiny town, nice for a relaxed time in the Free Camp Stop.

Met up with Carol and Les (also saw them at Julie Creek and spent a few fun times with them further down the track).