Wednesday September 3

Two more days at Yardie Creek and very enjoyable days they have been. 

Yesterday I walked along the gorge, only about 2 km each way but up and down little gorges so moderately hard going. Also worth it I got to see a rock wallaby, very briefly, but at least I saw one. The creek itself is quite pretty at the bottom of a gorge, about 10-12 mtrs high, lots of fish and birds, again I saw some blue heron (at least that is what I think they were). Only 2 but that is more than one! Then we had a swim and spent the rest of the day busily doing nothing. 

These camps, there are 9 or 10 of them, all have a volunteer host who lives at the camp in his/her van and generally makes sure that all runs well. They also deal with on the spot bookings as opposed to offsite bookings. At this camp we have a sundowner at 5.30pm at a pair of tables set up at the top of the dunes and overlooking the beach and with a great view of the sunset. On the boat sundowners mean going to another boat with your drinks and some nibbles, here we just take our drinks and talk, but it is a nice idea and helps get people mixing together. 

Following a chat with a photographer here I went this afternoon around 4pm for another walk along part of the gorge in the hops of getting photographs of the rock wallabies and sea eagles and ospreys. Bad luck about that but I did get a couple of shots of ordinary wallabies on the path and inside a bush eating.