FRIDAY 23RD - PORCUPINE GORGE

As anticipated, I won't be able to post this until we return to civilization but we are comfortably settled as one of only two campers in the Pyramid camping area at Porcupine Gorge, approximately 70 klms north of Hughenden.

When we booked on the Parks website last night, we were the only booking for the campground so, when we arrived this afternoon, we didn't worry about the site we booked, we set up camp in the best site here No sooner had we set up but another couple in a caravan arrived to tell us that they had just booked site 8, the best one here, at the Tourism Information Centre in Hughenden. We moved. We still aren't in the one we booked but we are fairly confident we won't have to move again.

 

 

The gorge is very impressive for somewhere we had never heard of before. It is a 1.1 klm walk down into the gorge and the base of the gorge is sculptured sandstone with Porcupine Creek trickling through it. It would be even more impressive if the water was at the level the marks on the rocks indicate to be the normal level. The only disadvantage is that we had to walk back up 1.1 klms to get back out of the gorge but it was great exercise.

 

 

We had a couple of visitors for dinner tonight. We suspect they might be bettongs. Any comments? They were very keen to share our meal but unfortunately, we had to disappoint them.

 

 

Unless we find some interesting distraction tomorrow, we will be in Townsville tomorrow night in a nice manicured park with less heat and fewer flies.