We hung around for quite a while at camp as karen took photos of the bird life but ultimately she didn't think the bird life was great enough to warrant staying another night.
So we packed up quite a bit later than we normally would but this didnt matter because the station stay we were going to was not a great distance down the road. The driveway was 10 klms down the road then another 30 klms along the station driveway.
Again the road conditions or more specifically the stations 30 klm long driveway was unbelievably bad. Or good I guess if you are looking for four wheel driving adventure!!
But we snuck in slowly and gently and arrived at the station mid morning.
Hilariously we are getting quite the name for ourselves as the people that built our own and took it to the gibb, so when we were walking to reception there was a guy on the phone frantically trying to get someone to weld up and broken part on his caravan. He spotted us walking and and said to who ever he was talking talking to, its all good i've got it sorted they just arrived!!
We grabbed some station meat, it sells out very fast, they only restock the freezer once a week, as this place sells their own beef. And to our surprise it was not expensive at all.
We grabbed some water to refill our water tanks and unhitched our van then I went over to the station workshop welded up the broken caravan!
The station manager then asked if I could fix his station trailers so I proceeded to do that also haha They all offered payment in various means but I of course declined. I was so grateful that this station allowed us to use their welder only a few days ago, so taking any sort of payment was not going to happen.
Anyway, back to camp and Karen pretty much had set up our camp all on her own. We usually have a his and hers type of arrangement for set up and pack up, i do the dirty outside, she does the clean inside haha.
After relaxing for a while we went back to the station and grabbed one of their famous home made meat pies and we both agreed it was the best pie we have eaten.
We then decided to head out to the old station homestead and a gorge for a look.
The old homestead was a great step back in time with the old dilapidated stone built house and out buildings. We spent quite a bit of time walking around the property looking at all the old treasures laying around.
There is also a really old grave yard that weirdly had very fresh graves with some burials only being last year. We could night find any information on any of this but the graves were sunken and the grass around them was very high and unkept. It was sad really.
The old homestead is around 15 klms from the new homestead and station down a 4wd track. After exploring that area we went back out to the main road and then turn off onto another very rough 4wd track that led to Warla Gorge. This was a paradise that had a beach like sandy bank on one side and a beautiful escarpment gorge on the other side lined with large river gums.
The water was quite cold as you would expect in running river water but it was crystal clear and a very spectacular location. It was in fact the Hann river, the same river we camped at the night before.
By the time we got back out of the 4wd track and back to camp it was quite late.
To our absolute shock and disbelief when we arrived back at camp a group of campers who were set up about 30 or so metres from us had ran a noisy generator out with two extensions leads and sat it right at our caravan awning!! No noise for them but thought it was ok for us to listen to it.
And even more unbelievable the blokes at the camp wanted to argue that it was ok and were getting verbally confrontational so they needed convincing that they should put the noisy thing over at their camp, not ours. And even after all that one of the blokes said well ill move it over here but itll only annoy someone else!! hahaha people are so inconsiderate sometimes.
After that excitement we had left overs for tea and went to bed.