Day 11 - Diamantina to Winton
Sunday, 16 September 2012
Explored the rest of Diamantina NP. We must have come in the back door. Wt we saw Today made yesterday make sense. We first discovered the Hunter Gorge campsite was the place to be,we had been warned that it was very exposed, so chose the other spot :( There must have been 150 pelicans that called the river home. I think PAV was thinking if we had camped there, he could have been lucky with the fishing rod - they have to be there if that many pelicans are happy there. We walked along the riverside, PAV creeping up on the pelicans, then throwing a stone in the water with the camera ready as hey all took off, quite an amazing site (and sound). On to the lookout and Janet's leap. Quite spectacular, would be even more so during a big wet! Then the information centre held all the clues to the settlement (and dis-settlement of the indigenous people). Oh, the history, and damage white settlement has caused this land.
We continued north to Winton. Station country. Flat, grass plains, station cattle grids, etc
Mayne Hotel ruins was quite interesting, with it's below ground cool room and the fact it had been operational until 1951!
Eventually got into Winton late afternoon, and after a quick beer in the old hotel ($10 for 2 XXXX bitters). Why can't we get this beer outside QLD. We have only ever found XXXX G old. The bitter is not bad.
Found a free camp spot a few Km south of town beside a water hole. All the flies and midgies were here as well.
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