TWENTIETH DAY – WEDNESDAY 28TH JULY
Got up and packed – had a quick snack for breaky off by 7.40 am. There were no clouds in the sky! The terrain was flat and dry grassy plains. Lots of cows. Lots of hawks and eagles eating road kill and they also loved the locusts. I think there might be a locust plague or maybe its normal but boy there are millions and millions of them. We ran into probably a few thousand of them!! I also noticed there were lots of ant hills in the red dirt areas – actually hundreds of them – not exaggerating either. Some of them are so elaborate they look like castles. Imaging the queen ant in her castle with all her workers. We arrived in Cloncurry and filled the van with fuel and dropped into Wollies to get a few supplies. After Graeme spoke to a guy who was filling his water tanks from a tap in a park we also filled our one nearly empty tank and the guy also told Graeme of a good place to camp near a dam. So off we go and just out of the town we decided to check out a lookout. It was an amazing 360 deg. view of the area. It is quite hilly/mountainous in this area with some very interesting shaped structures popping out of the ground. Also in this area are many flowering gums and bushy wattles. We find the Corella Dam and go through a closed gate and find our way in on a dirt and rocky track. It is a beautiful place. We drove around a bit as there were quite a few tracks and we came across a lovely spot along the edge of Corella Creek. We set up camp and enjoyed a lovely afternoon watching the many birds swooping over the water, some smaller birds such as the Rainbow Bee Eater were catching butterflies and the brown hawks were catching fish. We are pretty much by ourselves here, there are some campers down a bit behind trees and another camper the other way behind more trees. Graeme wanted to try the outside shower. So he heated up some water and filled it up with mostly cold water and some hot. He hung it up in a big tree and had a shower. It was very water efficient and very effective. I decided to try and wash my hair. It worked really great. My hair is nice and clean again. We have managed to find the most beautiful places to set up camp. It is so wonderful to enjoy Gods creation in this way. At the moment the sun is going down behind the trees and rocky hill and the air is becoming quite chilly. During the day it has been really hot, I’m guessing about 27deg C.