A very awesome part of the overall trip. We did this with Mark and Rob whom we met at Atherton. Lots of camps, sunsets, campfires, booze and giggles. We really enjoyed their company.
The below journey was done over several days. And due to flooding involved a little backtracking.
We started at Gregory and headed to Adeles Grove camping - we were not terrible impressed with the Camp so we pushed on to the National Park about 15 mins further into the Lawn Hill park.
We spent a few days here. Swimming, Hiking and we did the Canoe trip (paddles are hired by Adeles Grove at $30 pp).
The photos of the gorge really don't do it justice - see below
After the hike it was to the falls by canoe.
The next day we headed toward Riversleigh - we did get to the World Heritage site through ... but could not get through a swollen river soon after and decided safety first and turned back to Gregory, and we headed toward Mt Isa.
The first bit of the river was ok, but around the corner was a deep torrent with a big hole on the nasty side.
On the way we had to cross a few muddy puddles with the van. These had to be walked first.
later on we found a great camp at Matts Rest (see Wikicamps), and settled in for an overnight in the outback.
A huge storm was doing its thing in the distance - in the direction we had come from ... so we are thinking we escaped "the wet" by about 3 minutes lol
The next day we arrived in Mt Isa on Sunday.
Two massive storms hit on arrival. The van and truck got a long awaited rest.
We spent the Monday looking around Mt Isa and did a trip out to Lake Moondarra (only 13 kms out of Mt Isa). Its well worth the short trip.
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