In barra and croc country!

At normanton now...very hot today, about 32 degrees, and our caravan site is pretty warm right now! Going to head out shortly and look for birds at a big wetlands area near here...apart from that using this afternoon (we got here quicker than expected) to catch up on washing etc.
Heading to Karumba in the morning- lots of fresh prawns, crabs and barra up there...so should be yummy seafood for a few days. Also huge crocs for us to watch out for!

It's very very country/outback feeling in these places...laid back and tiny populations, with limited shops and friendly people. It's often been impossible to even get a loaf of fresh bread! (normanton has a bakery and we were quite excited to get fresh white bread!). It's a real experience of a different part of Australia and we are enjoying it. So much empty bush!! Today we drove for hours and saw only a couple of other cars, birds of prey, including some huge wedge-tailed eagles and a few roos.

Yesterday we had fun- we travelled around 90kms on dirt road through an old mining town, Forsyth and onwards to Cobbold Gorge, where we took a boat trip in the afternoon. It was a magic little place- tourism here still very low key really, which is refreshing as it means no gloss and smaller crowds. The gorge was a narrow sandstone gorge and had a really peaceful feel to it. So narrow in places you could easily reach out and touch the sides. We saw about 10 freshwater crocs laying on the banks too.

I went for a walk yesterday morning too, along a creek bed (they flood during the wet, but already are bone dry) and saw so many birds! I saw some parrots I haven't seen before, including the brilliantly coloured red-winged parrot...it's bright green, with, you guessed it, a red wing! Also saw many pale-headed rosellas. Saw all is continuing well on the bird-watching front, and my "bird-log" keeps getting bigger and bigger. :-)

Anyway, that's about if from us....Dad, Adam is outside at the moment and I can hear Windy and Warm playing again!! So he's doing OK with the guitar but he sure misses Gabbie! Lucky you are being a good caretaker ;-)

Mum- hope you and grandma and the cats and dogs are doing well- miss you all!

More soon. I'm just too hot to keep sitting inside the caravan any longer!

Much love,
Emma & Adam xx