We were up pretty early and had some time to chill out around the camp fire. I cooked some bacon and eggs for breakfast, while the eggs were externally intact the inside was well and truly scrambled when I broke them into the pan. Meanwhile Shane was extending his cooking repertoire by turning bread into charcoal. Around 8'ish we headed off to Mount Elizabeth station where we checked in and paid for the Munja Track ($150 each car and $50 key deposit). They didn't have much information on the track and the one page sheet of distances was the last one so I had to use my phone to take a photo of it. We were on station roads for quite awhile and it wasn't too difficult at all.
We stopped at a couple of Aboriginal rock art sites and had an early lunch at the second one.
The difficulty increased once we had entered the Munja Track proper at Magpie Jump-up and it was back to low range first gear to crawl down the hill. There were a couple of other difficult spots but on the whole the track wasn't too bad. There was also a couple of interesting creek crossings mainly because of the steep entry and exits. We saw quite a few nice camping spots along the way but I convinced Shane we should go to Bachsten Bush Camp as it had hot showers.
We arrived there around 3:30'ish, checked in and then went for a very pleasant swim in the creek. They fired up the Donkey for the hot water showers about 4 pm so after setting up camp I went for a shower while Shane went for a walk to the top of the hill to look at some caves. I got the fire going and then used the supplied metal plate to cook up some steak for dinner. It's a very nice spot to camp once the sun goes down and the flies disappear, luckily there were no mozzies to annoy us. Once again we sat around the fire writing our trip reports and chatting. It was still over 20 deg C after 7:30 pm at night and didn't feel like it would get too cool overnight. Tomorrow the plan is to head out the Munja Track to hopefully get to Walcott Inlet.
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