We have almost ended what has been 2 nights at Fitzroy Crossing. We got up early at Halls Creek & left by 7.30am. The time difference thing that we are trying to adjust to sometimes works to our advantage! Anyway, we drove pretty much straight here only stopping for me to get some fruit snacks out of the van for the kids.
Once we arrived we got fuel, then went to the info centre. We made a plan from there & then went & checked in at the Fitzroy Lodge Caravan Park. Its a nice park, out of town just a little, has nice clean showers/toilets and a swimming pool! A must when travelling with the kids.
After unhooking and getting organised we had some lunch & then took a drive around town. Not much to the town really, its a town with a few very close aboriginal communities near by. There is a school, hospital, fire, police, centrelink store but closed due to lack of staff! A isupermarket, post office, hardware store, a mechanic, a couple of servo's & a store that has a bit of everything when it comes to clothing, electrical appliances, sporting gear, baby suplies, shoes & other stuff.
The rest of the afternoon was spent at the park in the pool. We spoke to some really helpful people at the pool & we have now made the decision to go back onto the Gibb River Road from here & not Derby as originally planned. It was a slack dinner last night, our fridge seems to be not working as well as it should, so had to get rid of some food.
Today we got up early as well. We got told about the Geikie Gorge Boat Cruise that you could do so we thought we would go & check it out. The curise left at 8am & we needed to be there about half hour before to get our tickets. It only went for an hour but it was a smaller gorge than all the others that we have been in to & it was also different in that we saw lots of the untouched sandstone that millions of years ago was the reef. We also saw a fair few fresh water crocs & a few birds. The gorge is actually up the Fitzroy River. This river when it is in flood it carrys the most volume of water out to sea in Australia. We were listening!!
Here are a few of the pics we took.
And there you have it, some of what Geikie Gorge has to offer.
So we were back in town by 10am & had to start getting organised for our next few days camping at different spots along the Gibb River Road. First was the Supermarket, then the Hardware store & back to the caravan park. We made sure we could store our van here at the park too. Trent & I then started puttig everything together & up on top of the car. I also helped Phe with some homework & Maurice & Flick played with toys. We had pancakes for lunch, I told Phe she could have them for breaky & when we decided to do the gore tour there wasn't time, so lunch it was!
Then I needed to get clothes into tubs, so Trent took the kids to the pool. I packed the tubs & did some washing.i also spoke to GD & Nannie Di which was nice. I then joined them over at the pool for just over an hour. We came back, I got the washing in & then we had showers. Before going to have dinner we rang Nannie Jac & Poppy for a chat. At dinner we were able to watch the first half of the cats play & then kids were too tired so we came back & got them into bed. I then listened to the Krock call of the footy for the 2nd half while we finished doing what we could to get ready for our camping trip. Got to love being able to feel like your at home listening to the footy when your on holidays & have no tv reception! Go Cats!
We also spoke to Nannie Rose & Papa while we walked back home from the lodge bar where we had dinner.
And that ends it for this blog. Not sure if we will have service to blog while we are camping, but will be sure to when we get back to the van. At this stage we are planning on about 5-6nights, see what happens!
Take care everyone
xo
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