Saturday 23rd August 2014 – El Questro – fine, sunny, clear skies

 

We left Kununurra and headed towards the Gibb River Road.  Our first port of call is El Questro.  A little expensive for the unpowered camping, but it has some good 4wd tracks that we decided we shouldn’t miss.

We drove in and parked the camper trailer to reserve a camp site and headed off to Branko Lookout and Explosion Gorge and Sandwich Hole.

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By the time we got to the Chamberlain River crossing we were glad that we had decided to stay a El Questro

 

 

 

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From the river crossing your can see the resort on the rock overhang.

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Close up of the resort         Downstream view from Branko Lookout

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You can see the resort in the distance on the right            View of Explosion Gorge

Above Upstream view from Branko Gorge  -     Below  full view of Explosion Gorge

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Sandwich Hole – amazing array of colours in the rocks

Green, Pink, Purple, Caramel all with a nice sparkly sheen.

 

 

 

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Our camp site at El Questro

The weather is so nice we haven’t needed the annex. 

 

 

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Bird of the day – had no idea what this was. At first I thought from a distance it looked like some sort of sea bird… Although it does look black it isn’t – some sort of brown colour.

It is a Radjah Shelduck – it is out of it’s optimum habitat which is the NT but can be found outside this area but it is uncommon/rare.

 

We had a walk through the camping area and there is a new very very large bus towing a very large enclosed trailer to take a small 4wd and quad bike – it is the luxury on the road fit out all colour match and next to us a couple in a ute with a swag and esky and two of the tiniest beach chairs I have seen.  One extreme to the other…….

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