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More gorgeous gorges today. We took in Galvan Gorge and Adcock Gorge which were both pretty short walks from the Gibb River Rd. At Adcock Gorge Benjie spotted some of the green sugar ants we had when we went on our bush tucker safari whilst in Kakadu. So Geoff decided he would do as the Aboriginals do and climb a tree and bring down a nest so we could eat some (the kids and I were lukewarm on the idea of eating more ants anyway), he got the nest down but the ants decided to take revenge and crawled all over Benjie, Po and I biting us. Nice one dad!
We drove on to Bell Gorge stopping to fill up with Diesel at Imintji Roadhouse. The price of the diesel out here is $2.05 cents/litre. The roadhouses are like stepping back in time and usually run by real characters. This one had fresh bananas which we grabbed as we ran out of fresh fruit a day or so ago. Our food stock up from Kununurra has lasted pretty well as we can fit quite a lot in the fridge and we had the meat cryovaced at the Kununurra butcher.
Bell Gorge campground is nice, It has flushing loos and solar showers. However the 20km road into the camping area was awful. The worst corrugations and rocks we have had so far. The kids don't seem to notice we just have to turn the talking books up louder on the stereo. They are listening to the Little House on the Prairie and are quite enjoying it - even Benjie! When we get back into civilisation we need to download some more books as we are just about through them.
We will explore the gorge tomorrow.
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