The skies are more filled with clouds and if we had a shower it would not be surprising.

We packed; we went back to the rock pools -

We visited the old Beeza Homestead - a German couple came here to raise pack horses for the gold rush but when the gold petered out and cattle just did not work at that time that moved on. The old mango trees still stand and the cockatoos sharpen their beaks by snapping off the green mangoes - about a dozen fell while we were there for morning tea.

Ken and Helen, who we were to meet later in the day, were bird watching at the lagoon.

We drove on to red lily lagoon where the beautiful red lotuses are in bloom and Sue photographed a Jabiru and a red backed kingfisher.

We skipped past white lily and tried to drive in to Hanausch Camp Ground for lunch but had second thoughts when Sue spotted what looked like a bushfire up wind - instead we drove into Midway campground - it is a really interesting camping spot by a large river where the trees are huge and it feels like the forest has been sleeping there for 500 years - it is primal - it is engaging.

We stopped at the ranger station so Mal could photograph the old house and windmill and then into Kelpower Crossing.

We drove across the causeway; a little egret was fishing off the road, and a mangrove Heron was also looking for a feed.

We found our campsite - it was pretty crap so me parked in a sort of turnaround island just across the track - so not in anyone's way but in a better location. After filling up the water tank ands having an afternoon drink, we walked down to the banks of the river - the trees are just - spellbinding - paper barks almost the girth of SA river red gums - with root systems that tenaciously grip on to the river bed to withstand the enormous summer rains.

We met Ken and Helen, a couple from Melbourne - and then walked back as the sun was dipping down behind the treeline.