Week 4 June 3rd – 9th
We had a great week, we did absolutely nothing but saw heaps.
We meet people, caught red claw, read our library out and had foggy, sunshine and rainy weather. We toured the Dalrymple National Park and saw nature at its best.
We camped at Fletcher creek just on the outskirts of Charters Towers for the week. According to the locals (that is anyone that has been camped here longer than two weeks) the area was bequeathed to the Charters Towers Council by “Robert Leach” a farmer that wanted to set the land aside for travellers. The bush camp area had limited facilities but the friendliest people. Some that have been here for weeks others just days, but all with stories to tell and from all different parts of oz.
The creek is spring feed and flows down to the Budekin River. The area is near the Undara larva tubes and with the volcanic like rocks around, you can believe that larva did flow through this area, maybe 2 million years ago. The day we drove through Dalrymple National Park we were a little disappointed. It is an open woodland area with four campsites that you have to pay for and print out a permit online. “Hello” there is no phone or internet service here.
Wednesday we woke to a morning of fog and 100% humidity. Wow this changed the atmosphere of the place. Spiders that must have been working all night to create the most amazing webs, the paperbark trees that had been holding flowers all week, just let them go, an explosion of yellow.
We had friendly Brahma steers stroll through the campsite and watched the antics of the squatter pigeons, did lots of reading, crocheting and of course have some great casseroles/red claw dinners by the campfire.
“It was a great week”
