Day 23 Terry Smith Lookout to Gregory ( Lawn Hill National Park)

 We left quite early and continued north till we hit the 4 ways. The Burke and Wills Roadhouse is here and big hint - buy your fuel and anything else for that matter somewhere else. I use Fuel Spy a lot to check out the price of fuel and its amazing the variations you find. 

The roadhouse was $2.77per litre for diesel and Gregory which is even further west was $2.40. Once you travel up to Normanton , it dropped to $2.12 so you have to plan carefully and make good use of the jerrys. 

We arrived in Gregory ( also called Gregory Downs) and it is on the Gregory River. There is a beautiful camping area down on the river but it was absolutely packed so hard to get a spot. We ended up back on the town common free camp area - no where near as nice but you can walk down to the river quite easily. 

Gregory River

It was around another 100km of gravel out to lawn Hill so we elected to leave the van there and drive out early the next morning for the day. Had packed lunch and swimming gear but the weather changed drastically overnight with a 10 degree drop in temperature and a cold wind to go with it . 

You can stay either at Adele's Grove or in the national park itself . Adele's was pretty quiet when we dropped in and the national park has limited camping that books out months in advance, Like all roads , you could take the van in there - just take your time. 

A 6.30am start with the upper Gorge Walk to complete . This is the longest walk in the park and covers both them middle and upper gorge areas. A couple of good steep climbs to the lookouts but beautiful water and fabulous scenery. On the way , you go past Indarri Falls - can't swim there at the moment as a fresh water crocodile has become very territorial, Would ahve been great to swim in other places but again too cold . 

As you can see there were plenty of cattle on the road but lots of other wildlife as well -heaps of wallabies, emus and yes even wild pigs. 

That night we went over to the pub for tea and to say that we had a drink at this iconic pub. Lots of character like so many of these old buildings.