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Whenever you mention overseas that you are from Australia, people think “the opera house, skippy and the beaches” but Australia is not only that, Australia is the bush, the outback, the country people, and its wild life and lots more. Ten years ago we joined one of the best four wheel drive club in the country. Being members of the Subaru Club, we have met exceptional people, whom we consider our second family; we learnt how to go camping, four wheel driving and more, now is time to put our skills to the test. We will be travelling to the rainforest, the outback, the world famous great barrier reef, we will go through some remote areas with rugged terrain, we’ll see lots of wild life including the legendary salt water crocodile, furthermore the famous road trains, they are 53 metres long, of course meet the country people, we will be visiting cattle stations; one of them is one and a half million acres and obviously we will be going to a lot of country pubs so we can enjoy a coldie while we meet some of the locals and some adventurous travellers, we are very excited and cannot wait longer to “Go and See Australia”......well...part of it.

05 August 2010

Kingfisher Camp

We moved from Lawn Hill Station to its next door neighbour Bowthorn Station (we were told this property has ½ a million acres with 25,000 heads of cattle) where Kingfisher camp is located, we were excited because it did not sound that far, however we travelled 140 kilometres inside Lawn Hill property until we drove into Bowthorn Cattle Station and then kept on going another 95 kilometres until we found Kingfisher Camp, the dirt roads were very rough, with a lot of corrugations and several bulldust holes and sandy patches, the outside temperature reached 38 degrees; it took us around 5 and a half hours of driving. After our arrival we set up and were invited to sit down around the campfire with our neighbours, next morning what a surprise, we found a beautiful camping grassed campground situated next to the Nicholson River.
We did a self-drive trip to Hedley’s Gorge where they told us we could swim, when we finally reached the Gorge and almost ready to get into the water we spotted a fresh water crocodile and very quickly changed our minds about swimming, we were told these little friends do not attack people, but we have a lot of respect for them.
In the afternoon we hired an aluminium boat and toured through the Nicholson River, we spotted a few fresh water crocodiles one was about 3 metres long, when we approached him to take a photo he did not even look at us; he just kept on sleeping. We also saw some bird nests stuck on under the face of the rocks it was amazing to see them coming out of their little houses.
We headed back to camp and prepared everything for the next day journey; to finish the night we were invited have some drinks at another campfire. These people were from Sydney and we took the opportunity to talk about the Subaru Club, we think they are future members.

King Fisher Camp
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4 comments:

  1. BrettAugust 9, 2010 at 8:47 AM

    Wow guys, you are really getting to some lovely spots and there are more wonderful spots for you to enjoy further north. Can you bring some of that warm weather back to Sydney?

    Brett

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  2. BrettAugust 9, 2010 at 12:26 PM

    Oh...and Chantelle sings to you...."never smile at a crocodile...."

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  3. Aussie TravelersAugust 11, 2010 at 11:02 PM

    You are right, the places are just magnificent, and very hard to describe.
    Don't worry we will bring some of the nice weather with us, unfortunately you have to wait a little bit, by the way today we were 21-35 degrees.

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  4. Aussie TravelersAugust 11, 2010 at 11:05 PM

    Hi Chantelle, we agree with you. The crocs don't look friendly, no smiles at all!!!, we have taken some photos for you.

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