D: 23 to 27 Aug

We left our caravan behind at Cammooweal and headed north to Adels Grove near Lawn Hill National Park. The road was a bit rough to risk the caravan.

This is the spectacular gorge at Lawn Hill, we hired a canoe to paddle up and back and later walked some of the tracks:-

Grevillea

4WDs are the norm here.

Wedge Tailed Eagle waiting for us to drop from heat exhaustion:

Our camp site at Adels Grove:

We managed to survive using the car fridge with the battery lasting out to just the last morning.

We managed to avoid hitting any of the wildlife on the road.

We went out on a tour to the Riversleigh fossil site (World Heritage) and saw some big red kangaroos on the way:
Paleontologists have somehow determined that this is the fossil of part of the upper leg of a prehistoric fresh water crocodile:

General view over Riversleigh site:

We went back to Camooweal for one more night before heading into the Northern Territory.

I was just congratulating myself on all tyres being intact after about 400 km of driving on the dirt, when a tyre went flat as we looked at it. This was when we stopped at the end of the day at Camooweal. Luckily I was able to fix it with my "Speedy Repair Kit".

Other damage on the trip so far has been:

One extension mirror broken off with draft from passing road train.

UHF antenna fallen off on road (but we recovered it intact).

Electric element in caravan fridge no longer functioning. It still works on gas so we should make it to Darwin.

We made it to Three Ways near Tennant Creek and managed to get one of the last powered sites for the night. This is a stop used for overnighting for road trains: