17^th June 2007

Last hot day before the rains came

Swimming in the river near Sir John gorge

Australian Bustard

A wild Bull which AWC are trying to eradicate to prserve the wildlife

Sir John Gorge

Drinks at sunset

Clouds form before we got stranded here by 2 days of rain

After a wonderful sunset the previous evening we got up at 5.00am to go bird watching by 6.30am it started to rain, the first time it has rained in the dry season since the 1950’s!

Great fashion rainwear

We slid 25 kilometres each way to Diamond Gorge and back, it then continued to rain for the next 48 hours closing all the roads. Guests charted a small plane to fly them out as they had an international flight to catch leaving their 4WD hire car here!  The plane nearly didn’t make it as it got bogged down on the airstrip as it landed!

Agile Wallaby hops past or tent

Purple Crowned  Fairy Wren like the pandanus trees in the creek

Next our tent

Huge fig tree offers plenty of fruit

After the rain

These cute crimson finches come out to feed in grasses near our tent

The Gouldian finch is much rarer, down to 2,000 only

Left, and Mornington is a choice site for their recovery programme

Termite mounds are impressively large sculptures

The Fitzroy river in the wet has the 3^rd ;argest outflow

Of rivers in the world