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An easier packup this morning with bare minimum unpacked last night and still hitched to car - yet we were still some of the last to leave at 8! When we started the car it stopped and both our hearts fell, but after a few pumps of filter and some advice from an oldie nearby, it started thankfully! Not sure if an airlock or dirty fuel as Matty had been a bit worried about, but doesn’t matter as it started and didn’t stop! We set off to the homestead with the kids looking forward to resuming their wild game of fetch with Evie the resident kelpie slash sausage dog. There is a sign not to feed Evie no matter how lovingly she looks at you as she is watching her weight- with 20 dozen scones cooked daily here that’s a lot of tidbits! Evie plays fetch by collecting the ball and then running away, so there was no hope of anyone having a peaceful cuppa and scones in the garden this morning.... the garden was enormous and beautiful, the homestead tiny but with so many outbuildings it never really needed to be expansive. An outside bathtub was perched on top of river bank in one building, the laundry in another, with flood photos showing the water lapping at the bathtub- the river was a good 20-30m down a steep hill. Some bushfire photos too of fire at the front gate. Maybe it was the amazing scones but it was easy to feel like swapping Sydney life for station life (with that lottery win we’re due any day now...). My better half didn’t think much of that suggestion, so it just depends on how much we win! I guess heading back to the hectic life we lead in Sydney is starting to weigh on my mind now we’re past halfway and almost done with the Gibb.
Not far to Home Valley Station this morning, thanks to Matty pushing on last night. Enough for our Harry fix on a much smoother dirt road, the country has changed again, leaving the palms and thickly scrubbed country behind of the Mitchell Plateau, we are back in Eastern Kimberleys with expansive views of the Cockburn Ranges (pronounced Coeburn for any other sniggering youngsters like ours) which are reminiscent of Grand Canyon landscape. The station is an incredibly well setup chain campground with a bar / restaurant spreading out to a pool. Back to paying a lot more for sites, but we didn’t mind so much today with prospect of some chill time near pool. Much to both of our delight we were allowed bar beverages in the pool grounds- as long as parents with children were dressed ready to enter water if need be- that was not a problem! Matt and I settled in for an afternoon of $10 Matso Ginger beers - a Broome brewery that I am now addicted to, happily paying through the nose as we recover from the Kalumburu Mitchell Falls roads. Feeling quite flat today and not motivated to do a great deal, that road has shaken it out of us, hopefully we will awake reinvigorated tomorrow to explore the trails around Home Valley- a 3 million? acre station with a gorge?!
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