Moonrise out the back of the caravan park Mount Isa
Hi Folks don’t know quite when you will get to read this. We are sitting at the Miyumba camp site adjacent Riversleigh/Lawn Hill Park and the Gregory River crossing. It was a hot morning in Mount Isa which didn’t help the packing up. By the time we had gone into town for a coffee and left the city it was 1230. We trundled up the Barkly Highway towards Camooweal with our new addition a big box with Susan’s old new bike in it strapped to the tool box on the front of the trailer.. We turned off the Barkly Highway towards Lawn Hill and around 185km into the days journey were on the gravel road. The road was moderately rough and we travelled fairly slowly encountering a few other vehicles on the way. After a 100 km of dirt and fording the Thornton River which was quite low on the car wheels we crossed the Gregory River which was flowing more vigorously and we had arrived at out Bush Camp. We selected our spot seeing as we are the only people here we had a choice of all of them. We wandered back down to the cooler air of the stream and drank in the ambience. Had a great chuckle when a Coaster bus from Adels Grove showed up with a party of sightseers. We had a chat with a few of them and presently headed back to our campsite. One chap was an oyster farmer at Nelson Bay so Susan memorised his name so that we can call on him when we are visiting her sister. The road was quite dusty and although the car was reasonably clean the trailer and bikes were covered. We set up the swag and Susan knocked up bacon, eggs and tomatoes which we washed down with beer and wine. It was a warm day and even now at 8pm the air is quite balmy with no breeze and a near full moon. It’s a bit odd being 50 km from the nearest campers since in many camp grounds we have been less than 5 metres! We shall mostly pack up tonight so we can beat the heat of the day tomorrow. The days travel will amount to about 56km of gravel road which is just about enough for old people.
Cheers Simon
......POSTSCRIPT
Ahh bush camping again, Miyumba must be one of the smallest official campsites, it has only 5 sites, one a drive through, which we had booked, but settled for another which was most shady. We have seen many of these trees along the roadside, no idea what they are but the red flowers are quite striking against the endless green.
After tea we sat in our chairs listening to the babble of the Gregory river, and the increasing volume of the night critters, then all of a sudden the sound of a car, through the watery crossing, gathering speed, then slowing, I was hoping they would drive on by, then relief they did.... I did not want to share the park with others.
After settling into the swag, I was hoping for a night of starlight, but an almost full moon washed away the stars, I fell asleep thinking “turn down that moonlight, I want starlight”
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