Lawn Hill - lovely! Adels Grove

Monday 8th August 2011 - Gregory Downs to Lawn Hill (Adels Grove)

• What a rough ride in! Our first dirt road towing - about 80km. And our first river crossing. We got a bit wet inside the van. Just the door bit.
• Passing road trains on the dirt was interesting. Get as far off the road as possible! 
• Adels Grove is a very nice place to stay
• They have a creek side area with generators banned, and a top generators area which we didn't get to see.
• Paid up at the front and got to pick our own camp site. Lots of sites down in the grove.
• There is a bit of a bank before getting to the creek, cant really get to it unless you walk down to the swimming area. Good on them for doing that - stops all the crap people leave behind washing into the creek.
• Walked up the local hill for sunset. Great spot! Sunset was amazing. Only place with phone reception too. Everyone walks up there to make a call. We setup office up there and used the internet for a bit. 
• Annoying people rocked up right next to us, half hanging onto the camp site we picked - silly me should have parked the car another meter back so they couldn't fit. Grr at annoying people.

Tuesday 9th August 2011 - Lawn Hill canoeing 

• Dave did an early morning ride up to the mountain and did an hours work while the sun came up. 
• Drove into the national park for an explore. 
• Hired a canoe for 2 hours.
• 1 hour got us to the very end as far as you could paddle. Nice stop area for a picnic if you want.
• Got back to base in the other hour no probs. 
• Too hot when we got back from the canoe to do a walk. 
• Drove back to Adels Grove and had a swim
• Setup office on a little park bench with the antenna. That got lots of interest from the oldies - "ooo what are you up to!"
• Hayley got cranky with the loud neighbours so we went for a late night drive up another local hill and took some star photos. 
• Got back and they had tried to make a fire, ended up smoking out the entire camp ground. Quite a few people were commenting. Washing the smoke smell out of everything in our van was fun. .. 
• Besides that, all good! Would stay there again.