Heading South

It got cool last night well probably down to 25° I suppose but nice. It’s a beautiful sunrise over the ocean and there is a croc swimming up and down about 50m off shore. But it is so calm that it soon becomes hot very hot. After a chat to the local ranger, a beach clean up and Tina’s final touches to our monument ( a very thick boat mooring rope and a tag with our name, date and fish size) we head off. It is a bit of a common thing to leave something attached to a tree or this case the shelter with your name and date so everyone else can see who made it. There was one at gunshot creek crossing that was made mostly of car parts and one guy who reckons he shit his pants here while crossing so he wrote on them and left them, we just signed a damaged rim when we crossed. These monuments don’t actually look tacky.
Onwards we go down that 27km track of hell and back on the bypass road which is better from here on. There isn’t really much to see on the way back just 100’s of Km’s of Dirt road with corrugations. We push hard today stopping at Coen for fuel & beer and then carrying on to Musgrave roadhouse. We travelled over 430km today and that is a big day, only arriving after 6.00pm.
We met Andrew & Chris and their friends. Andrew had caught a 58cm Barra today at Hann Crossing. He to was aided by some knowledge passed on to him by some other fisherman which helped him to catch it. It was beaut fish and enjoyed by them all for tea. We st around and shared a beer and some yarns they to have decided to travel Aus for 2 years and it is great to meet people of our age doing this.