Bingil Bay to Tully Gorge - Day 150, 05/09/2016
The wind really picked up this morning and it’s the strongest its been since we left Karumba, the skies were dark too and we decided to quickly pack up to avoid getting the canvas wet. We had one final stroll along the beach and then said our goodbyes to our neighbours and hit the road towards Tully Gorge. On our way we stopped in at Mission Beach to restock our supplies and I booked our campsite for the national park.
We were soon passing through Tully on our way to the gorge and we started to drive through showers as we made our way through banana plantations and then back into the rainforest. The camp ground at Tully Gorge is a nice open space fringed by rainforest with beautiful luscious green grass, if it wasn't wet I'm sure the girls would have rolled around on it as its been so long since we have seen such thick green grass.
We quickly set up and spent the afternoon exploring the surrounds in between showers of rain, the river is pretty low and one of the other campers told us the power station up stream hasn't been releasing water for some time which is why its low. There is a nice short rainforest walk that has heaps of information on the butterflies found in the area and the girls took it in turn reading the signs to us. After dinner Anna and I chilled out under the tarp and before retiring to bed we both saw something very unusual in the night sky... Next time you see us ask us about what we saw - queue the X-Files music...
Distance Traveled = 72 km
We were soon passing through Tully on our way to the gorge and we started to drive through showers as we made our way through banana plantations and then back into the rainforest. The camp ground at Tully Gorge is a nice open space fringed by rainforest with beautiful luscious green grass, if it wasn't wet I'm sure the girls would have rolled around on it as its been so long since we have seen such thick green grass.
We quickly set up and spent the afternoon exploring the surrounds in between showers of rain, the river is pretty low and one of the other campers told us the power station up stream hasn't been releasing water for some time which is why its low. There is a nice short rainforest walk that has heaps of information on the butterflies found in the area and the girls took it in turn reading the signs to us. After dinner Anna and I chilled out under the tarp and before retiring to bed we both saw something very unusual in the night sky... Next time you see us ask us about what we saw - queue the X-Files music...
Distance Traveled = 72 km
Total distance traveled with camper = 37,492 km
Total number of nights in the camper = 282
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