Today we are heading for Barrington Tops National park, actually it turned out that we were in the Gloucester Tops just past the town of Gloucester.

Packing the car up today I noticed that the snorkel top was missing off the 4WD, when I suggested we could leave via the fire trail and maybe find the snorkel top, Jacky was not impressed so we decided to write it off.

We managed to get the chainsaw sorted out in Gloucester but were unable to find a snorkel top. The road into the Gloucester Creek campgrounds was a narrow gravel road that wound through numerous farms and over quite a few creek crossings. There was about 30 cms of water over most of the crossings but it was quite obvious that it would not take too much of a downpour to isolate many of these properties. The campground was a beautiful bush setting near the Gloucester River. The wildlife was very friendly, the Crimson Rosellas tried to land on Jacky’s head as we set up camp, the kookaburras watched us intently, the fairy wrens walk in and around our table under the canopy and we had a possum crawling over our tent that night.

Welcoming Committee at Gloucester Tops Campgrounds

Blue Fairy Wren at Gloucester Tops