We were up nice and early because we were hoping to snag a spot on the Pentecost River free camp down the road.
So we packed up, emptied our loo which was important because there are no dump points on the Gibb River road. We filled with water, filled up with diesel and dumped our rubbish in the bins provided.
The drive down to the infamous river crossing was really only 30-40 minutes down the road so very easy and uneventful.
As luck would have it we got a spot right on the rivers edge and right at the crossing so we can watch everyone tackle the rocky crossing.
We set up and spent the day thoroughly enjoying the scenery and entertainment. We very quickly decided to stay for a couple of nights at least.
We did have two families with young kids either side of us though so it was not the peaceful expereince we were looking for!! They were both leaving the next day so fingers crossed no kids camp near us tomorrow haha
The entertainment of people tackling the river crossing was endless. There must have been over 200 cars and vans etc cross the river. It is a shallow but long rocky crossing that really requires to go across it at walking pace as it is very bouncy but some people enter it at quite a speed and very quickly notice the mistake they have made. Yet others just keep bouncing through very fast risking breaking things. It truely is quite remarkable what must go through some peoples minds.
The sunset was beautiful. We got some drone footage and there would have been 100's of vans along the side of this river going down for kilometres.
We cooked a nice chicken pasta meal and went to bed.