This is known as a morning after blog.

Yesterday started with a walk down, being in the general direction of the river mouth, the dry river bed. As usual I was quite amazed by the amount, the size and the height above ground level of the debris obviously brought down the last time the river had water. There are lots of rivers through this part of WA but nearly all are dry at this time of year, maybe more than that as there is not a lot of rain up here. Correction I just looked it up and found out that they get more rainfall than Perth!, that will take further investigation.

Anyway back to the van and straight after breakfast Elaine is doing the washing using water that I have brought up from the little bit of the river that has survived. The bird life here has the usual noisy corellas and crows along with a small flock of Pelicans and some long legged egrets and various small birds. There is also, allegedly a couple of freshwater crocs, but I haven't seen them. I am going to have to get myself a bird book or app for the iPad so that I can identify the large number of bird species that we see. I also cleaned the van with the water from the same source. Interestingling there is green slime on the river bed but the water I collect is beautiful and clean.

Later in the day we got the fire going and were rather put out by a hire van like ours parking very close, something that doesn't usually happens at these camps as normal consideration has everybody parked with plenty of clearance, unless of course it is really packed out. They are not often packed out so we get used to having plenty of room.