We spent a night at the Des Streckfuss Rest Area on our way to Marble Bar. There was a waterhole out the back which the White-plumed Honeyeaters kept coming down to drink from.
We woke up to some rain in the night and the cloud hung around in the morning.
We planned to start our next round of intensive marking at the caravan park in Marble Bar.
The creek near the caravan park.
It was a short drive out of town to the bar (of jasper, not marble!).
Australasian Grebe
A little further up the river is Chinaman's Pool, which was even more interesting.
The power of the recent flood was evident. The concrete slab survived, mostly intact...
One afternoon after work we went for a drive out to Doolena Gorge.
Carawine Gorge was a couple of hours away. We had initially planned to stay there two nights and cut across to Nullagine but reviews suggested tyres needed to be let right down to not get bogged in the river rock/sand. We no longer have a rear diff locker (increasing the risk of getting bogged) and letting down/pumping up tyres takes a lot longer now we have a TPMS fitted, and part of the road to Nullagine showed as being closed on the East Pilbara Shire website, so we decided against taking the van out there as we would have to come back almost to Marble Bar again before heading south. It was a long day trip, but well worth the effort. We even put the kayaks in as it's the first waterway without the threat of crocodiles we've seen.
Tomatoes! They obviously sprouted from someones' kitchen scraps.
Grey Shrike-thrush
Reflections in the Nullagine River on our way back to Marble Bar.
