Well, we were up very early to catch the lunar eclipse, at about 3 am, however it had already started. I didn't really get any good shots out of it, but I stayed awake long enough to see the moon completely occluded. I went back to bed for what I thought would be a short rest but I ended up waking up when the sun was up and the moon was well and truly set. We had a leisurely pack up and headed off to the southern end of the bungles to walk into Cathedral Gorge.
On the way we stopped off at a lookout to take a few photos and I noticed that one of the supports for Blute's nudge bar had snapped, so it was out with the spanners and we removed it and put it in the camper.
This walk was also about 2 km but the walking conditions were much better than yesterday with far less time spent on river rocks. It was pretty spectacular and we spent awhile just sitting there appreciating the view. We then took a few photos and wandered back to the car park.
Shane didn't feel like any extra walking today so as we drove out we found a nice little dry creek bed and drove up it for a bit until we found some shade and had an early lunch.
On the way out of the park we dropped into the southern campground and found it very similar to the one we stayed at. We had a good run out of the park with no one to slow us down and stopped briefly at the junction with the main road for a drink and a stretch. I saw another Rhino camper there and had a quick chat the folks as they were heading into the park. The run north on the main road was pretty uneventful until Shane's patrol started to have problems cruising at 100 kph, he thought it would be the fuel filter needing to be changed. We stopped in at Doon Doon roadhouse to refuel and the patrol was a bit better for awhile. The plan was to try and get to the Pentecost River on the Gibb River Road for the evening but it gets dark out here fairly early. We stopped at the junction of the main road between Kununurra and Wyndham. While there was still some day light left Shane changed the fuel filter and hopefully tomorrow it will all be good. There is quite a few caravans and other campers here and a bit of road noise but overall not too bad for an overnight stop.
I heated up some leftover Spanish Chicken Chorizo and rice from a few nights ago and Shane cremated a couple of sausages when he forgot all about them. We cleaned up and caught up on some internet stuff before heading off to bed relatively early as we'd had an early morning. Tomorrow we hit the Gibb River road.
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