The vehicle problem put a bit of a dent in our schedule as we have a booking for a lake cruise on Thursday as well as reservations for a camping site for Wednesday and Thursday at Lake Argyle and we had planned to spend 3-4 days covering the distance to Lake Argyle. Now we have only 2 days thus this morning we were up before sunrise getting ready for an early start.

As it turned out todays drive was pretty easy, good quality paved road with very light traffic so we made good time. The road is called The Victoria Highway and is part if the Savanah Way (which links Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia). The scenery was sparce forest, yellow grass and lots of rugged escarpments. And of course the Victoria River and the road house at Victoria Crossing.

Nina wanted us to camp the night in the western segment of the Gregory National Park where there is access to Old Bullita Homestead via a gravel road, and a campground called Limestone Gorge by a very rough 4x4 track.

The old homestead was very interesting. It is no longer operating as a station but is a display within the National Park with many of the old buildings still in tact. Interestingly the farm house itself was built entirely of corregated iron and steel posts. A sign on the front door of the farm house invited visitors in for a cup of tea and at the rear of the house was a table, kettle, with tea and coffee supplies.

We were taken by the Boab trees which were in abundance and seem to grow in all kinds of shapes.

Limestone Gorge campground was a typical primitive camp with pit toilets and fire places as the only facility. It was quite a difficult place to get to and so we were not surprised to have the campground to ourselves.