26th July 2021 Millsteam National Park

We left stargazers camp site heading out to a free camp area on George's River, on the way out it felt like we were driving up an avenue of lavender with all the Mulla Mulla in bloom.

It was a glorious morning and it was nice to be going exploring, when we turned off to go to Python pool the road was pretty horrendous so it was stop and let the tyres down

As we travelled the scenery cannot be described, it was so picturesque, the road through the rangers was bitumen, narrow and 45km speed limit.

We stopped for a look at Python pool but didn't swim as there was quite a few people on there and we wanted to get to our camp site with enough time to look about.

When we arrived at the camp area we weren't sure if the road took us to another spot further out, the area we were in had a sizable water hole that had been part of the river which was drying out, there were flocks of fire tailed finches, zebra finches, corellas, larks and large grey and white ibis, we could hear pheasant in the distance but never saw any.

We walked about 3kms down the other track to see where it went but decided we were happy with where we were.

Merv went for a skinny dip in the waterhole, just as he dried himself off a car arrived, it was a small SUV with a small pop up jayco lark, they had next to no English they said they were sick of the bumpity bumps, as the tried turning around they got the caravan caught up on a big stone, a sign coming in said 4wd only, it makes you giggle.

The evening was so quite and peaceful we sat outside with our wine watching the stars then the moon rise.