Today we are doing the park drives. The first drive is the Desert Drive.
The length was 19 klms one way, but it was considerably longer coming back the Jundah-Quilpie Road.
This was an interesting tree – Beefwood (Grevillea striata) the timber is reddish. We brought our field guide to common plants of the Cooper basin. It said that it is a slow growing, long lived tree. The one blazed by Charles Sturt at Depot Glen in 1845 still stands sentinel over Poole’s grave.
It had flower buds on it – we are a bit too early to see it bloom. The book says that they are creamy yellow. You can see from the photo what unusual leaves it has.
Spinifex The information board at the bottom of the sand dune
View from the sand dune and a flowering bush which I
think maybe Silver Cassia.
Our next drive – Mulga Drive
This drive is 71 klms and it took us about 2 1/2 hours
It is a loop drive, there are several water holes
to visit and and a viewing point from Sawyer’s Look-out
and a visit to Sawyer’s Creek.
Coming down the track from Sawyer’s Lookout.
Mt Welford is in the back ground of the first picture.
It is located just outside the park.
A view of Mt Welford on the return loop
Sawyer’s Creek, a couple of pools of water remaining until the next rain.
How fast can you hop?
Well I can tell you that they were keeping pace with us at around 60 kph.
The red is our day’s adventures. We finished with the River Drive
which was a bit of a joke, because you went to the river once and
that was it. The drive is no where near the river.
The circle is our camp spot. We are glad that we drove straight to
the camp on the way in and didn’t go via the River Drive.
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