Today was another day day mostly shake rattle and roll. We left camp at around 7.50am and headed toward Mitchell Falls. We knew that we were in for a bumpy ride for the 80km drive up to the falls carpark which takes around 2 hours each way. The road was quite narrow, rocky in spots and corrugated. It would quickly change from lush and tropical to dry and bushy. We then had an 4.3km walk in the dry heat to view the falls themselves. Once again it was a very pretty spot. Chris captured some great images whilst I watched the kids having a swim. We then completed the return walk back to the carpark and enjoyed a well earned cold drink and picnic lunch. None of us were looking forward to the bumpy 80km ride back to the campground, although the sighting of a couple of dingos along the roadside made it a little more interesting. Strangely the day became overcast and we even experienced some spits of rain. We thought this would be a problem as we had become used to leaving things out and not putting the fly on the tent. We expected to come back to a sodden camp but luckily the rain held off until after we returned. Around 9.00pm we decided we would put the fly on the tent just in case which turned out to be a good decision as we experencied some light rain for most of the night.
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