Day 2 - Leonard Gorge, Bell Gorge, Mornington
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Off to Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary via Lennard River Gorge. The road is ok, but the dust is terrible. Traveling in convoy makes this so difficult. We are spread out so much we have to relay messages over the radio. Chauffeur has become Malcolm in the Middle! Walking into Lennard River Gorge although relatively flat was rather tricky over the rocks and chauffeur soon left me behind. I found Wendy at what we thought was the end of the gorge with a series of small falls. Little did I know we had actually missed the main track which headed uphill to a lookout. After Wendy left, chauffeur appeared, looking for Michael who appeared later from further down the gorge. He had climbed down from somewhere, anyhow he had found the 'gold' at the end of the rainbow. We followed him back down into the VERY deep gorge and waterfall. Always under pressure to keep the convoy moving we turned back passing a monitor lizard sun baking on a rock in the middle of the river. The stop at Bell Gorge was longer. I am very good at either being over or under prepared. Here we should have packed lunch in the backpack and our bathers. A bit of a wade over water at the first pool and a climb up and over to the falls and swimming hole. This was too good to miss so it was a swim in the undies, again! Back on the other side chauffeur found a suitable rock to put gators, shoes and socks on. He called out he was heading back a bit as he seemed to have lost a gator! Ten minutes later he comes back saying it had gone. I asked him what was sticking out of the bottom of his shorts. Pulling the leg up he found he had 2 gators on one leg! Unfortunately for Glen he got a puncture in the car park so had left straightaway to see if he could get it repaired at the Imitji RH. By the time we got there it was well underway. The next mishap was mine. I was in the RH, chauffeur comes in to pay after fueling up and asked me to move Dmax into the shade! So I hop in the car and go to move to the only bit of shade which is over to my left. Aaaahhh! Awful grinding noise. Unbeknownst to me there was a large rock just near the front passenger wheel. As I drove forward and over to the left I managed to get the car wedged on top of it. What a spectacle, how embarrassing, the only time I drive the car, literally 6 inches, and I wedge it on a rock. I wasn't allowed to forget it with people pointing out rocks for me to beware of for the rest of the day.
Quite a rocky but interesting drive into Mornington wildlife Sanctuary.
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