Day 37 - Fitzroy Crossing

No photos to show here.  We left Cape Leveque early as we had a long drive today and the first section was on unsealed roads.  We actually took a back road which was an ungazetted road but we had been told it was quite good.  It was just a track really but not nearly as rough and corrugated as the Cape Leveque Road.  It probably saved us about an hour in time and was quite an interesting drive - no signposts, but the local police had given us a few route markers so that we would know we were going the right way.  Stopped for fuel when we got back to the highway  and arrived in Fitzroy Crossing which is on the mighty Fitzroy River (not very mighty at the moment as it is the dry season and the river is just a series of waterholes).  In the wet it can be as wide as 15kms in places and is 750 km long.  All the caravan parks are full to overflowing, but we managed to get an unpowered site in a very nice one.  Spent an hour at Gieke Gorge this afternoon, did a small walk but not the river cruise.  Compared with some of the gorges we have seen, it was not especially spectacular.  We have another early start in the morning to go to Halls Creek, grab a few provisions, and head on to the Bungle Bungles for 4 nights.  We will be out of range there, so there will not be another posting until we  return to Halls Creek for one night before heading down the Tanami Track (yet another unsealed road) to Alice Springs.  We feel as if we will be dusty and dirty for ever and will have to take a photo of the trailer when we get home.  Can't imagine how long it will take to clean it inside and out.