13 - 14 July 2016 - Days 102 - 103 - Silent Grove Gibb River Road

We had all intentions of leaving early but by the time we went and send goodbye to everyone we didn't leave Honeymoon Bay until 9am.  Then we quickly stopped in at the community supermarket to stock up on some food and the deck hand from the fishing trip the day before had a flat tyre.  By the time we talked to him, to make sure he was ok.  We didn't leave Kalumburu until well after 10am.

The drive back to Drysdale was great as again the grader had just gone along that stretch of road and it took at least an hour off the trip.  We stopped and got some petrol and continued onto Mt Barnett Station for another tank of petrol.

By the time we arrived at Silent Grove it was 5pm and the sun was going down and we had travelled approx. 560 klms on bad roads.  It had rained alot during the night around Mt Barnett station and the road was down to bare rock with no dirt covering it at all, which exposed sharp rocks.

After a super quick set up of camp, we did it in record time and cooked dinner and were sitting around the fire by 6.30pm.  We were all shattered.

The next morning we woke up and hung around the camp and relaxed before we did the Bell Gorge walk.  It only took around 30 minutes to get into the gorge.  The boys all had a swim and again found something to jump off.

We had to walk thru the water on the way out, so Cooper carried Mitch thru like a nice brother as he

already had his shoes on.

The car was so dirty from the drive in the day before that we went down to the water crossing that we had crossed on the way into Silent Grove and gave the car a wash.

It was another great day.