It's Easter coming up and we're told our next proposed places on our itinerary are going to be booked out due to school holidays. They are only very small places having said that. Anyway we decide on a detour to see the Kennedy Ranges an area not visited by many people and it's due East. Our suspicions regarding Carnarvon's telecoms suppliers were not completely accurate and we did manage to find someone who could sell us a Sim card for the iPad, but sadly nothing to be done for the iPhone. We have however discovered that although the screen is smashed on the iPhone, we can still use it to get a signal and then hotspot the iPad onto it, thus still giving us some access to the Internet (result) and moods are rising again.

So off we set, away from the coast and onto a smaller yet straight road. After a couple of hours of nothing particular, we turn off onto a small dirt track to see. what Rock Pool looks like. Well you guessed it..a very rocky but large pool. The Gascoyne river runs through here, but after the summer it doesn't run at all, much like all the rivers around here. It does however have small pools of water which are fed from underground. This one is particularly full and a true oasis that's been used by aborigines for centuries and stockmen more recently. We're surprised to find three other travellers have also ventured there, but it's a fantastic spot for a lunch break and watched a bird of prey snatch a fish from the water.

On the road again, we see two vehicles going in the opposite direction immediately after our stop and then no-one for nearly two hours by the time we reach the deserted small township of Gascoyne Junction, so named not because there's a railway or two roads meeting, but two rivers, the Gascoyne and the Lyon. Both rivers dry of course. Strange place and a brand new barren campsite with just two other families. We get offered an en-suite ! ie we can have our own shower and loo, though I don't think the demand on the communal loo would have been too bad. Seems like the old campsite was washed away a couple of years ago in the big flood which happens every now and then