Lawn Hill National Park Qld

Lawn Hill Gorge (Boodimulla) to Karumba

 Friday 15th to Monday18th August

The drive from Kingfisher Camp to Lawn Hill was amazing, beautiful views, thick bull dust and lots of wildlife. Jacob got to have a go at driving, as the road was deserted. He did a good job although he wished a clutch had never been invented!!

 

Bull dust

First driving lesson

'It's harder than it looks!'

Simon had a little bother with his nuts!

The long and winding road!

The best of the Rest!

Lawn Hill is our favourite gorge, and believe me it’s had a lot of competition!! It is a 3 canyon system which is so remote that it remains unspoilt by visitors. We walked the length of the gorge to the upper lookout and then back to the waterfall to swim, and although it was a 7km hike it was relatively simple with minimal rock hoping. There are fresh water crocs to be seen sunning themselves on the banks but no Salties so there is safe swimming throughout the gorge. The kayaking is amazing, with hardly anyone else around we glided silently to the upper gorge, swimming in some great rapids before paddling back.

 

Dinosaurs Yay or Yawn?

 

I insisted that we travel to see the World Heritage Riversleigh area of the park, where ancient fossil discoveries have been found. Palaeontologists have discovered a giant flightless bird ‘Thunderbird’ and the largest predatory freshwater crocodile ever known the ‘Barra’. However the site was really boring for the kids, as they were expecting to see the whole creatures reconstructed, but all there was were bits of their bones in rocks!! Overall no-one thanked me for dragging them here, but it was another tick in the box of things to see!

 

After some discussion about the next phase of our trip we decided to make a slight change to the plans and visit Karumba for one night to enjoy a spot of fishing.