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| Roper River - Elsey National Park |
21st June 2012
14725 km's to date 190km's today
We were the first ones to leave the rest area this morning. It was freezing cold and our fingers hurt as we packed up the camper. The kids got into the car with their sleeping bags to keep warm. In Western Australia we would get up at about five thirty and the sun would be almost high in the sky. It is going to take a bit of getting used the 'normal' time of day. We called in to Katherine and were lucky enough to not have to join a que for diesel at the Coles servo. There were five cars behind us and another five in the line up for the other diesel pump. We located a carwash and Chris gave the Pajero and Camper a proper wash.
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| Roper River |
We discovered Katherine has come up in the world as it now has a McDonalds, so we called in for breakfast. This would probably be the third maccas stop for our entire trip and I don't think we will ever eat McDonalds again. It was nice at the time, but not so nice a few ours and days later. We arrived at Elsey National Park just before lunch time. Our neighbours Murray and Ange from Mesa Camp at Cape Range National Park had recommended this place to us so we thought we would go and check it out.
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| swimming pontoon Elsey National park |
It is the best National Park campground we have ever come across. Hot showers, flushing toilets, gas bbq's, nice big bitumen sites and your allowed to have a fire. We headed straight to the river for a swim. Everyone had fun messing about on the swimming pontoons. Chris was sick but still managed to take the girls out in one of the canoes you can hire for the afternoon. John and I didn't make it as John was now sick too. poor John boy was a ghost and in and out of sleep for the rest of the afternoon. It was a long night.
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