Packed up and headed off up the Gibb River road, scenery changed from flat open plains to hills and rocky escarpments as we went through the Leopold Ranges. We arrived at Mt Barnet roadhouse around lunch time so we decided to try their steak burger, it was pretty good and at $18 it was not the most expensive we have seen. Fuel prices have taken a leap on this road, $2.50 / litre so I limited myself to only 100 litres. We had read / heard that Manning Gorge was worth a look so we were thinking about an early camp there before going on to Drysdale Station. It turned out that Mt Barnett was the booking office for this camp ground and they wanted $20 /person/night. We decided beautiful gorge or not $40 for bush camping was a little too much. Drysdale was another 150 kms so we decided to push on. We arrived at Drysdale River Station around 4:45pm just before the office closed and the choice was camping by the homestead with flushing toilets, hot & cold showers for $15 /p/n or Miners Pool for $10 /p/n with pit toilets.

Miners Pool – Drysdale Station

The homestead camping looked a little crowded so we opted for Miners Pool. What a place, close to 10 acres of camping spread along the Drysdale river and we had it totally to ourselves.