Rinyirru National Park

Headed to Rinyirru national park today, with Musgrave Roadhouse as our first stop and the turn off into the park. We grabbed a feed, fish burger for ben and salad roll for me. Onwards we go, looking at a few campsites along the way, then cruised through the Nifold plain. It was pretty cool but weird, I kept waiting for pride rock to show up. Usually the national parks we've been through are bushland not like African Plains which is how it felt. We hit the bush and had a quick photo stop at Breeza homestead. On our way into Red Lily lagoon we saw a dingo, it looked pretty different to the ones we've seen before and on Fraser, he was a bit stockier, a bit darker and ran differently too, not as beefy as Pup though haha. The lagoon was absolutely covered in lilies, we couldn't even see the water. There weren't many red lilies flowering though. Next was White Lily lagoon, nowhere near as dense and we're sure crocs would live there, we climbed up on the car to get a better view, still no stupid crocodiles. We went further south than our campground since it was still early and to save time in the morning. Had a look at the campsites at Kennedy bend, then into Catfish waterhole. We stayed there for a bit, on the lookout for scaly things, still no dice. On the way back to our campsite we decided to do the 6km drive into old faithful campsite. The first few sites were in the bush and the last was on the water, a massive river system. Out of the corner of his eye, Ben saw a croc! I spotted it too then it went underwater. We parked the car to see if we could spot any more. Far enough off the vertical embankment, so safely. We were about to jump back in the car when he popped back up. It was pretty cool! We were very excited. He would've been about 4m and just swam around for a while. We watched him until he started to disappear into the lilypads on the far side. Time to head to our campsite. A nice spot, not too many sites and very spread out. We set up and went for a walk down to the river and causeway that heads to Cape Melville. Then just the usual, except cold showers only here, so we showered before dinner. Finished Ms Marvel and Moonknight, so we'll have to download something else when we have wifi next.En savoir plus