A few days in the bush ...

20/11/2019 We're ready for oma!!!

Because she comes with plenty of gifts!!! Overdue birthday gifts that were too expensive on the islands 😉

They don't have much time to get unpacked as we planned a Glamping trip into the "hinterland"! About 800 km away from LouiseAnna and we leave the very next morning!

It's 800 km inland, but still such a long way of central Australia! However it'll be the furthest we will explore the true bush!

21/11/2019 The road trip is long and we have time to dose off as there is really not much "action". Beautiful landscapes though! This is the biggest town we encountered and a perfect place for coffee and icecream😉 Childers is cute with a lot of older buildings showing a bit how it might have been in the colonial days 😏

The roads are looooong !!! And it takes a long time before you actually get into the mountainous area.

And it's dry, very dry!!!

You see the remnants of fires of previous years and warning signs everywhere ... But no fires this way though, they're more to the South so we're good 😉

And here and there we're astonished to see a Baobab !!! It's called the Australian baobab or boab.

On the way up we decided to stop halfway. So our family can get accustomed to the hour difference and recuperate from their long flight 😋 A motel in the middle of nowhere 😊

Actually quite good! Modern and with swimming pool, bingo, tranvestite parties, all the works! 😂

22/11/2019 Plunging even further in the backcountry. We encounter some huge trucks:

And huge mining areas! Whole mountains are disappearing!

And after the village Banana, we encounter the skeleton road... Full of dead kangaroos! Very sad as we haven't seen a live one yet on this road trip 😓

What we do see however are 1500 cows!!!

Ok, we didn't count them, but the very charming lady farmer in this car asked us nicely if we could wait and be careful for her 1500 cows and about 30 horses 😲

The drivers on horseback are ancient history apparently. It's all trucks, motorbikes and quads!

And half an hour later, the queue from the other side 😆

Besides lots of dead kangaroos (honestly hundreds!!!), cows and horses passing by, the occasional fire ..., you also have flooding! Luckily there's no chance of getting caught in a river flood as there's no drop of rain to spot on the horizon!

The last town before the nature reserve. We were warned to stock up on food, drinks and petrol as there would be none for the next 150 km!!! And you can do it all in one and the same shop, as there's no other in this town 😅😂

The girls seem to be very used to long distances. Boats, cars, they don't mind 😊

And then finally a sign for the Carnarvon Gorge!

As well as more live animals. Beautiful Emu's.

Still more plains, we just wonder when we'll be getting in to the mountains...

And look! Our first Wallaby!!!

Look at this, just next to our campsite!

After all the trouble of getting up our tent 😂 ... I love this glamping! Doesn't it look great? With "ensuite" bathroom!

And hundreds of bats above our head! Quite a smell and lot's of noice at night! The poor animals fled their cave and trees after a big fire in the gorge last year. They have found a new home here on the campsite and they are trying to relocate them. In the meantime we had quite a show while cooking dinner!

But first, we needed to stretch our legs and squeezed in a small hike.

Just 5 minutes from the campground and easy walk. Gorgeous really!!!

The advantage of visitors is that we have family pictures! 😍

Do you spot the wallaby? That was after a big cry of my mum as she thought something was attacking Geoffrey 😂 The girls just said: "ah but it's just Oma!" 😅😍

So my chef at work!

And as I said before it's dinner with a show!

Of bats and wallaby's!

I was laughing about my mother screaming, but look what jumped from under the toilet just as I was having a seat!

We had a good laugh while Geoffrey tried to get it out of the bathroom. We didn't know if it was poisonous or not. Well now we do, it was not!

23/11/2019. Ready for the big walk. We had a slow start so we would be walking a little more on the hottest time of the day, but still very motivated!!! As you can see, it's quite a "select" or better: secluded hike!