This was not a great day for Michael. It started off very well. Got an early start and headed to Pine Creek for breakfast. Pine Creek township consists of a BP Station, small hotel, basketball court, toilet block and….Mayse’s. Mayse’s is a cafe, seems that everyone stops there. We had really nice breakfast, most of the guys favouring, bacon, egg, chees and BBQ sauce toasted sandwich, excellent smoothies – mango!
Off to Surprise Falls, 4WD track only.
Surprise Falls camping ground is a disaster, all burnt off and wire fencing sealing off all of the camping ground areas – well not quite, Tony and Jen manage to get the only real camp site (how does he do it?), the rest of us drive around. It soon becomes obvious that the only place to camp in on the gravel road, which someone has done. Michael, drives around a supposed loop only to find their camp stuff all over the road, backs up and……..backs into a tree – considerable damage and a very devastated Michael.
No one can find suitable place, it is awful! Michael is very unhappy due to car – we have discussion and 12 of us decide to move on to Lichfield. Tony, Jen and Dean stay at surprise falls. Tony is happy with our decision.
Greg and Wanda are to be our leaders being very experienced 4WD’ers.
Have an interesting trip, couple of tricky river crossings, sand track and amazing anthills. There are acres and acres of them, they look like either tombstones or ancient ruins in the middle of a sort of jungle (this depends on the type of termite that has built them).
Arrive Lichfield Park Precinct late afternoon and set up camp. Tony, Jennifer and Dean will join us here tomorrow. We are all happy with this park, has a cafe next door and they have HAPPY HOUR (or dinner). We will spend 2 nights here now.
We feel a bit sad about leaving the others but we really had very little choice.
John comes back from after dinner drinks full of ideas for our itinerary tomorrow. Lovely to have such organised people.
The people on this trip are all really wonderful
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