Friday, July 11, 2025

Day 89 Mount Elizabeth Station

 We spent the morning doing some washing, or at least trying to. The washing machines at the station were mostly broken and the wait was painful trying to get the only one that was working so karen washed our smaller clothes by hand. And they turned out better than the washing machine would have done it anyway.

The station has a lot of 4wd tracks but most of them are pretty extreme and given how far from home we are we decided it was best to not risk breaking our 4wd but we did pop into one of them to have a look at a couple of swimming spots.

They have what they call the plunge pool only about 500 mtrs from the camp grounds, which was nice but we went up the track about another 1klm or so and there was a swimming hole that was really nice.

We had it to ourselves, the water was initially cold of course but ok once your body temp gets over the shock haha

We also went up a nature drive, which was really just a track in the bush but it was good for karen to do a bit of bird spotting.

Back at camp later that day we saw a poor family with a badly damaged camper, both wheels were almost totally collapsed. We didnt see the people to ask if they were ok but clearly they were not going anywhere fast, I am shocked they actually drove into this cattle station given the road into it. Perhaps they were oblivious to the damage!

We went to the station bar and restaurant area and had one of their 'famous' burgers. Which was exactly that, just a burger, no chips haha Nice burger but the raw white onion was a bit different.

After tea we watched telly as usual and went to bed.