We didn't realise we were making memories, we just thought we were having FUN!
Moving on from the Gilbert River (north QLD)
What a beautiful time of day, watching the sun rise over the Gilbert River -the bird life is quite active this morning. The collection time for the parliment pots…..so exciting. we did okay, got about a dozen mixed size, they will taste good.
The next night we camped on the Mitchell River, once again a lovely spot & all to ourselves. we put in the partlimount house pots & managed to catch approx a dozen cherabin. The following night we camped on the Mithcell River again but about 100klms upstream (Hughs Crossing)- a really, really, really nice camp although there was someone on the other side of the river, once again we baited up the pots (dry dog food, very easy) & we caught about 20 keepers.
Not sure if this fellow was a ‘great egret’ or the ‘intermediate egret’, I imagine he would be the 2nd one as they are very common in the northern areas of Australia ……..? But still an awesome bird.A Hawkins side tipper, carting gravel from Normanton to Kowanyama approximately a 5 hour drive each way.JabiruBurdekin ducks on a mission.Happy snappers always around.Sunrise, what a beautiful time of day.Jabiru – what a magnificent bird.Woo ho – not a bad catch – approx a dozen all up, dinner to toniteI think fellow saw a Happy snapper & ?????????On the road again, this road train was going a little faster than us so we pulled over.Passed quite a few brumbies.Our camp – Mitchell river.This causeway is covered in a type of matting – quite interesting.There was quite a few crows.Lotz of kites keeping an eye on things.Honeyeaters in big numbers.The doves were plentiful & put quite show on while I was drinking my cup of tea.Wild mangrove flower.Small seed pods growing wild over a dead tree – Loofah (Luffa Aegyptiaca)On the road again, the road was very good.Quite a few moo’s along the way.Our next stop, Hughs Crossing – Mitchell River again, approximately 100klms from our last camp.We had an amazing camp site.This fellow flew across the causeway empty & came back an hour later loaded up with cattle.The pee-wee’s were having a great time.More Burdiken ducks.Our catch overnite.It was a fantastic camping spot.
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