Thursday 4th July 2013 – Mount Elizabeth to Drysdale River

Back to the Gibb River Road this morning.  The Gibb certainly is in good condition at the moment, unlike the Mount Elizabeth Road which was fairly corrugated in places.  We did pass a wrecked trailer though – looked like its springs had pulled out of their hangers or the weld on the hangers had given way.

The good road disappeared once we turned on to the Kalumburu Road to head towards Mitchell Falls.  Camp for the night was Miners Pool (part of Drysdale River Station) about 60km up the road.

Drysdale is quite a thriving little community with a small store (no fruit and veg), bar and restaurant and quite a busy camping area.  We chose the much quieter Miners Pool about 7 kms down the road on the banks of the Drysdale River.

After setting up camp we went for a quick swim in the river – no showers here.  It was very refreshing, read cool and no crocs.  At least that’s what the man at Drysdale told us.  After the cold nights at Mount Elizabeth we had collected some firewood along the way so we had a nice fire tonight.  In fact we had collected so much wood we had some to load back on the camper for another night.