Day 8 Gregory/Judburra National Park;

The day started early agin wth me chomping at the bit to explore the park a bit up this end before trekking south down the humbert track .

The Road was closed into limestone gorge and the kids werent that keen on a two hour walk in then out plus the one hour loop around the gorrge without the exploration of any of the limestone cave systems.

As this may be open later in the year we may venture back this way for the stock route and Gorge.

We had a quick scout around the campground and nearby river then headed off to tackle the rocky limestone track called Tuwakam track which branches of the main track  in only a few kms from our campground and snaked its way 20.6 kms over to the Buchanan Highway .

Tyres aired down we ventured in with the first 10 kms fairly straightforward att abut 20 kms per hour but from then in it was 2-6 kms  per hour over limestone  large shale and very sharp rocks ready to slash the unwary eye on the track.

We spotted some cleanskin cattle mixed in with some shorthorns ,  a throwback from early pastoral days .

We crossed over bobs grave spring creek then out onto the Buchanan about 95 minutes later, i enjoyed every minute of it too !

We took a left here hoping to flck some lures for the elusive barra at Jasper Gorge 30 minutes into the most amazing escarpment in this area so far .

We eventually arrived at Bottle tree waterhole but nomads were set up for lunch so we did the same after looking around briefly  .

The water was too akward to get too with a rod for anymore than 1 person so we soon set off back to camp via Timber Creek but soon came across some stranded nomads in a motorhome fully  inflated tyres soon became the issue for them but we helped them refit another and air up so they could be o their way sooner , i think the tyre had simply popped the bead as the rim was fairly dinted from the rocky road they were on .

We turned just before Timber Creek back in to the National park and a quick tour of the Bullita homestead annd stockyards which reminded me so much of my grandmas house back in Bendigo.

Some 40 minutes later we were stoking the fire and an early tea in preperation for our ranger session at 630 pm.

the slideshows and talks are very good and informative for both us and the kids.

An hour later and a quick chat we cleaned up the dinner dishes as the kids wrote in the journals and had their ipod/ipad time before bed in the comfort of their swags  .

The night was only a little chilly but the fire was a very nice backdrop.

So ended day eight for the travelling filbey