Suzanne & Nic Outback Caravan Trip 2025

 2nd June 2026: Awoke to a golden morning light on the gum trees and the sweet notes of the butcherbirds. We packed up and turned  on the Kennedy Development road in the direction of Hughenden. We visited the Lookout over porcupine Gorge downstream of Pyramid Rock and it was far more spectacular as the Porcupine Creek ran along the bottom of high sandstone gorge walls 120 million years old with a layer of basalt on top. We then took a Google directed shortcut to Prairie but had to turn back when we came to a place where the road across the Flinders River was entirely washed away. We backtracked and had to go via Hughenden along the Flinders Way to Charters Towers. It was a town filled with some attractive building left over from when CT was in its heyday gold mining days. We filled up with diesel and had a large shop at Woolworths before heading to the Charters Towers Tourist Park for a drive-thru site. I cooked a vegetables and salmon and pasta in cheese sauce affair with a g...

 1sr June 2026: Today we walked down into Porcupine Gorge with its most prominent landmark Pyramid rock at one end with a network of pools at the base at the end of a river running down the centre of the gorge. We reached Pyramid Rock and then crossed to the other side of the river across rocks where Nic got his feet wet. We made our way back up the far side of the gorge walking over rocks then scrambling down some more until we reached a place where we could cross the river back to the campsite side. This time it was my turn to get wet feet! We continued walking upstream, (after a delay for me to empty my shoes of water and wring out my socks)-and found a lunch spot under a shady tree. We kept walking as far as we could in search of an elusive waterfall at the end of the gorge, but we couldn’t progress any further without taking to the water, so we turned back. Nic made great progress, with me bringing up the rear by quite a long way as we climbed up the many steps out of the gorg...