First thing this morning I whipped up another damper – not because I am so good but because we haven’t got any bread.  The embers from last night’s fire were still hot so while we went for our walk  the damper cooked perfectly this time.  One more swim.  We are packing up and going – no prolonging the inevitable.  Wish we could take this place home.

Off to Camooweal – all on dirt road. The tire pressure is let down, car front to 26, back 30 and the Karavan to 25.  The scenery keeps changing from grassland to beautiful grey low growing eucalypts & lovely white trunked trees, termite mounds then back to grass and scrub land.  All the time surrounded in the distance by blue hills.  The road is corrugated, dusty, winding & lots of big dips but not as bad as we expected it.  We almost missed the turn off to Riversleigh, a world heritage listed are (declared in 1994) of major fossil deposits dating back to 25 million years.  The only publicly accessible D site takes you up a steep hill – all along the path you see limestone with the fossilised remains of ancient animals, birds & mammals.  There was one really special big one of the thigh bone & gizzard stones from a Thunderbird which was about 2 ½ metres tall.  Very interesting, you wonder who on earth wandered around in the middle of nowhere to find all this.  The surrounding hills were filled with limestone formations that looked like very well made dry stone walls – another amazing sight.

After 330 km. of dirt road (we saw 7 cars in total, none at all in the last 200km) we arrived, very dusty at Camooweal at 6.30 pm – refuelled the car & us at the BP Road House.  Back in mobile phone range – good to catch up with the family. It was dark by the time we got to the Camooweal Billabong camp area.  We appreciate the 5 minutes Kimberly Karavan set up. We sent off our back log of blog & to bed.