We are camped tonight on the southern side of the Murchison River near Galena Bridge. And therein lies a bit of a story. As we were leaving Gladstone the camp host, Roger, told us about this spot. On the other, Northern, side of the bridge is a 24 hour rest stop known as Galena Bridge Rest Area. It is very popular and most nights is fairly crowded. This spot however is the other side, southern, of the bridge and of the river and is not marked as an official rest area. But it is a nice spot and we are actually parked on a concrete pad, he also said that other people come in here and that there would be a few other RVs here by nightfall. We were all alone until just after dark another motorhome came in and parked for the night. So we have this nice camp without large numbers of neighbours which is good in terms of privacy and bad in that we don't meet new people.

This afternoon after we settled in I went for a walk. Near our van is this huge pond with deep sides and what looks to be deep water, it doesn't appear to be flowing so I guess that it isn't connected to the river. Behind that is a large, apparently man made, hill not very high bu quite large. According to the old, almost unreadable story board this used to be a lead mine a long long time ago and the hill and pond are I imagine something to do with the mine. Walking down from the hill I came across further evidence of activity in an old structure that looked like some sort of conveyor belt, a broken water tank and concrete pads for buildings. Then on my way back to the van another deep pit this one  had what looked to be a man made cave at the bottom of it, I presume that this was the mine! All very interesting and a bonus for our campsite.

Just one more thing, after a dinner of steak and chops cooked on our fire Elaine served up chocolate coated cheese cake (Karen's recipe), not bad for 'camp' fare!!!!