Day 10 10-8-11 Bullita Homestead

Had a good trip to  Bullita Homestead – this is the place we had hoped to get to yesterday.  a couple of tricky river crossings, not deep, but rocky bottoms and exits off at strange angles.  On one we had to drive along a rock shelf on the edge of the river to reach the exit.
Bullita station is now a National Park display area – the buildings are all galvanised iron – so primitive, it must have been so hot in summer.  The homestead was occupied until 1977 when there was a huge flood.  The woman who lived ther then was on her own and survived by wedging herself into a tree.  They must have had such hard lives out here.
Weather is getting hotter, the car says 41, but the display at Bullita has a temp range that says the hottest is 38, no matter it is HOT.  We arrived at middayish.
On the way, Michael saw what he thought was a cane toad on the road.  It WAS one of our party ran it over.
Peter D and Greg went on a cane toad hunt in the evening and clobbered 25.  The ranger is pleased. 
Bullita camp is on the East Baines River (runs into the Victoria River (well back so no crocs for those friends and relatives who may be concerned).  Once you could swim here, but due to the high rainfall rivers have converged and they believe that the salties have travelled into it, they are currently changing all the signs inviting you to swim to croc warnings and no swimming.
However, there are some great rock pools that we can sit in.
Bird life is plentiful, something really screeches at night, possibly the sea eagle chicks, it is interesting when one is lying awake.
We have seen: corellas, lesser egret, jabiru, yellow finches, a sea eagle with a couple of young, blue winged kookaburras, grey crowned babblers and rainbow bee eaters.