To make fast, big decisions is the best thing when travelling without too strict timetable. The German Andy and Swiss Jonas asked me to join them to the Carnarvon national park which is located around 450km inland. I thought about the idea for 10 minutes and made my decision to go.
We stayed 2 days hiking in the national park. First day we made around 25km and enjoyed really massive rock formations and gorges made by constantly flowing water. There was some aboriginal(indigenous) art with abo hands and weapons painted on the wall of the caves. There was plenty of small creeks along the track and this is supposed to be a really good place to spot the platypus. We didn't see one. bugger.
On the second day we managed to climb to a nice lookout point which offered awesome views of the whole landscape with cliffs and gorges. You could just think how big the whole Australia is. The weather turned out pretty hot as well, rising up to 30 degrees and some older folks seemed to have problem of staying conscious. Later the ranger put up a sign "Everybody should carry atleast 2 liters of drinking water". It seems that there has to be a sign for every occasion...
The last day I spent pretty much driving from Carnarvon national park here to Airlie beach. I think it was around 800kms, so quite a ride. Toyota eats 10.45l/100km which is pretty decent for a van. Now I should find a good standby offer for one of the sailing trips to whitsundays. We thought about having a little party in the evening and it seems Airlie beach, with tourists and nightclubs, is really good place to have one.
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