Today marks exactly 2 months into our trip and only 5 weeks till we get home! The end part of our trip is going to go so fast and we have so much to do now. I can see us sprinting across the Nullarbor to make it back to the boat. There are over 5,000Km between us here at Crossing Pool Campsite and the boat and depending on how far we get off the main drag along the way. We have done about 12,000km already so we will be under our trip estimate of 20,000Km by only a few thousand. I can get away with one more service on the truck before we get back. My spread sheet currently estimates we will use close to 2,500L of diesel for the trip.

Our current campsite at Crossing Pool in Milstream – Chitcherster National Park would have to rate high on the best of list of campsites for the trip. We have full river frontage less than 3M from the camper all the way along. It is about a 2M drop into the river so there is a small fence to prevent night time disasters, or there is a small fence to trip over for a night time disaster, depends how you look at it. We survived the first night so I think we will survive tonight as well.

Breakfast with a river frontage

Last campsite

The power of nature, a tree in a tree. From the January flood here.

We did the walk from here across the Fortescue river valley to the homestead today and then did a lovely little loop around the homestead and the ponds out the back. The pond is full of water lilies and surrounded by date palms planted when it was a station. Apparently after the station closed it was a pub for a while and then the became the visitors centre for the park. The pool was very tranquil and warm water was running under all the bridges. You could still throw some on you and then the evaporation would cool you as you walked.

Mulla Mulla wild flowers

Section of the pond

We eventually wandered back to camp and had some lunch. Lots of trip planning and lazing about as the temperature was in the thirties again. Mid afternoon we went and sat in the river till we were chilled as we could be. Another family of Tasmanians are camped here, from Cygnet also like the last group at Barn Hill Station. They have 4 kids with the youngest girl only 3. The logistics of there arrangements are interesting. She is from the Pilbra and they are taking the kids to see her father who works on a Bonney Downs Station half way between Marble Bar and Newman.

It’s cold….

Chillin in the river

Double selfie

More lazing around and getting info together before I walked up to the cliff to watch the sunset and take a few photo’s. Some nice cloud formations and some rain in the distant hills due to a small rainbow I could see. Leaving here tomorrow to continue our adventure in the next national park Karijini.