Sunday, September 22, 2013

Hells Gate to Bing Bong

After Doomadgee we travelled up the dirt road toward Borroloola, via Hells Gate, along the way we camped at Bluey Creek - a nice spot and our first camp in the NT!!!

Lookout just outside Hells Gate, nice spot but had been burnt so it was very dusty and hot:-)



Road signs at Hells Gate




Shallow water crossing at Bluey's Creek:-)


Chill-out time...


Look!!! this spot was meant for us... a sign which someone had left at Bluey Creek.


One of the dark shadows that linger around our tents at night:-) Cain toads everywhere!!!


Nathan getting a birds eye view:-)

Second camp in the NT...


Bunch of hillbilly's camping out under the stars again... awakening to a pretty spectacular sunrise though, which is not quite captured in this photo!!

Bing Bong

An interesting name for an interesting place, Bing Bong was a pretty awesome fishing spot!!


Welcome to Bing Bong - the road comes to an end at a loading facility (port), however, the smaller dirt road veers off to Mule Creek boat ramp... we camped a couple of days near Mule Creek in Bing Bong and caught a few beaut fish 





Almost felt like we were back up at Cape York being in the gulf


There's always something for us to play on, haha!!


An eerie mangrove forest we had to walk through to get to the beach at low tide, I'm sure there were crocs lurking around, we don't see them but I'm sure they are there and keep a close eye on what goes by, apparently you just don't visit the same spot more than 3 times and generally your pretty safe...  


Nath reeling in the catch of the day...



Cooking some more yummy fish on the campfire in the middle of the dried mud flats...





One of the sunrises we awoke to at Mule Creek:-)

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