North West Qld trip July 2021

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I followed the old tracks until the end

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I veered off to the right between the “Little Ayers Rock” and the “Triangle Arch”, skirted round behind the large isolated rock formation and found the art in the Alcove behind it.







More pics happened but they were in half sun half shade so not real good.

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I set off to try and find the “Dragonfly Tunnel” and spotted it not long after.

I climbed up over the range and down the other side to the other end of the tunnel and squirmed my way back through.
I tried hard to get a decent pic of one of the Dragonflies but its very dark in there and they take off at the first movement.

Once out side I headed across to the other end of the circular range to “Kissing Rock” before making my way back to “The Arch” and something to eat and drink.























Another visitor arrived in a Prado, they parked behind me blocking me in then put up their awning and donned sunscreen, long sleeve shirts, buckets hats etc then walked in to the little alcove behind the arch, stated “is that it?” then packed up and drove back out !!

I told them about the rock art but as there was no guided walk they weren’t interested … takes all kinds!

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After a bit of a relax to let the sun move I headed back the 600 to 800 metres to the Art site and found it in complete shade so much easier to get the pics.

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I headed back to the car and took more pics before cooking up some sausage sangers for dinner then headed out again for sunset pics but the angle and all the trees were all wrong so not worth doing.

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Saturday 24th July:

Next morning I tried for some sunrise pics but had the same problem so I fixed my loose Alternator belt then headed back out taking a lot more pics with the sun in a different direction.

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I drove back down to Butterfly Springs [now called Butterfly Falls] and took a few pics before hitting the gravel down to Cape Crawford where I grabbed a coffee milk, aired up and hit the long boring bitumen stretch to Barkly Homestead.

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I grabbed another iced coffee and headed east for the border stopping at Barry Caves and forced my way through the overgrown track around to the cave at the end, another intrepid soul had also made their way in and was camped there so after some pics I left them too it and drove back to the road and fixed the mirrors then continued down the highway to the Border.

I went straight through the Covid checkpoint as they were only stopping the vehicles going in to Northern Territory.

A short while later I pulled up at the Cammoweal Billabong free camp and drove past literally hundreds of caravans to find a campspot right at the very end of the road.

I soon had a fire going and cooked up some snags and caught up on some facebook as I have been out of range for ages.