We left Balranald around 10am and headed for Renmark, via Mildura, now a sizeable town of 50,000 people. We filled up at a fast-flow truck diesel pump at Shell service station- so much more efficient than the ordinary pumps. We crossed the border and were searched for fruit & veg at the fruit fly inspection station- all clear!! We went past grapes and acres of almond trees plus citrus. We headed for the Big4 holiday park right on the Murray at Renmark- a very well resourced caravan park. After a shop at Woolworths we went down to went to walk by the Murray, seeing an eel undulating through the water and we just caught the last of the sun on a magnificent River Red gum. We had a drop of the local 23rd street gin and tonic followed by pasta cheese sauce with salmon peas and corn followed by an early night
June 2nd: We investigated the 2 waterholes/walks available to us here at Mt Hart. Firstly we went to Matthew Gorge where there were a group of Outback spirit clients who had been flown in from Broome because of the road closures. Matthew Gorge was surrounded by many squarecut black rocks on all sides. We caught up with Kurt who was now one of their tour guides. We had a swim in the Gorge then Nic and I followed the gorge upstream doing a lot of rock hopping. We went a fair way up but not to the very end. We then visited Barker Pool where we were the only ones there- saw the usual collection of birds - lots of Willy Wagtails , peaceful doves, tiny pale yellow honeyeaters and blackfaces cuckoo shrikes not to mention ravens and magpie larks. We returned to camp and had a walk along the banks of the Barker River bleeding the camp site. We had dinner at the restaurant- rack of lamb for Nic and Shark Bay Snapper for me! We visited Kurt who is sleeping in his car in the camp ground...

Beautiful light on the tree trunk
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