Lennard Gorge

Thursday 13th
We drove back along the road we came on and Tim had managed to rewire the light plug so that it doesn't blow anymore lights so we were going well. We turned north east at the junction heading to Mt Barnett and the road surprisingly had patches of bitumen. Again not too bad condition. We stopped at Lennard Gorge and headed to the waterfall. What is taking a bit of getting use to is the really tall grass, above my head at times, and the heat, knowing that snakes are around but not being able to see very far around. We weren't able to go down to the water fall with this one and that was hard on the kids as they love swimming and to just go and look at something and not do anything was very hard. Tim was happy though as he got to do a little river crossing in the car on the way to this gorge.

Queen Victoria on the Gibb before Lennard Gorge

Everyone tried to find some shade at the lookout.
We then drove to our camp and Tim spent some time looking at our caravan tyre as it sounded like it had a rock in it. It ended up to be fine and corrected itself which was great.

The kids found a termite mound to play on. It was a very pretty place. Later that night a family came in and I noticed they came in off the road from the Kununurra direction so it wasn't long and he came over to chat and we got to ask him what the road was like. He said it was fine and he thought we would get through easy. Just go slow through the river/creek crossings! That made me excited. I really wanted to do the Gibb but I knew that God would guide us as to if it was good or not. Tim really didn't want to have any car/caravan problems so we had to be sure it was going to be okay.
Before bed Kimberly and I ventured over to the shed of a longdrop toilet and Kimberly went first.Then I went but as I sat down this big, hairy, 20 legged, brown, as big as a cat.... spider, climbed past my shoulder , up the wall and stopped at my head height. Kimberly kept the torch on it but I said that might make him go crazy, take it off! By this time Kimberly was laughing and I finished as quick as I could but Kimberly wouldn't get out quick enough as I was sure that hairy monster was going to try and jump on my shoulder as I left. I finally pushed her out and power walked to the caravan. Kimberly ran ahead laughing as she told the story to everyone. They all wanted to know how big it was and I made sure they got the true story!
Other than collecting a lot of dust day 2 on the Gibb went fine!