I have come to the realisation that our girls love rocks!  After 1 day at Arkaroola I can see the change in them, they are in their element.  Jemma nimbly jumps over the rocks while Jas spends her time on our walks eagerly looking for fossils or rocks that she can chip away at in the hope of finding one.

The landscape is spectacular and makes you thankful to live in this absolutely amazing country.  The only problem is that the internet access isn't as good as I would like so I have decided to upload some photos for you later.

We decided to stay a little longer here than originally planned so we we will leave on Sunday morning.  Right now Greg is enjoying the Ridge Top Tour that we have heard everyone RAVING about.  Unfortunately it is a little too expensive for the whole family to go. Tomorrow Greg has chartered a helicopter to photograph the Callabonna and a couple of other rivers in the area that are full thanks to the awesome rains that the country has been having. I am sure it will make for some amazing photography.

Last night at dusk we went down to Arkaroola Waterhole, we were told that we should see the Yellow Footed Rock Wallabies feeding down there at dusk.  While we were a little late we did get to see a few wallabies hopping around the rocky mountainside.  It was worth every second, especially for the peace and quiet that the girls gave us - they were warned they had to be quiet or they would scare them off - it worked!!  They have been trying to help the Yellow-Footed Rock Wallabies as they are low in numbers so to be able to see a few of them was wonderful and brought home the reality that Arkaroola is more than a holiday location, it is a privately owned property that has been dedicated to conservation efforts of some of our truly unique species.

What I have enjoyed here most at Arkaroola (apart form the awesome walks) is the chats with other travellers.  I have found, especially when I am trying to get Teddy to sleep through the day, other travellers come up and chat with you when you are washing up!  It is really nice to chat with them about where they had been and what they had seen and loved.

While I was in the toilet one morning I got chatting with the lady cleaning it.  A short while later she came over to me at camp and asked me the name of our website "I thought it was you!" It turned out that Robyn was one of our Facebook Fans from the early days and had put two and two together.  Robyn and Ted travel around and work in various locations to keep them on the road. They were looking after the caravan park facilities at Arkaroola for a few weeks before moving on.  We had lots of great chats with them and Robyn showed the girls a frog who had made one of the toilets home. Jas returned the favour by showing Robyn the Stick Bug (that's what we call them) that was so incredible it looked exactly like a stick, even the ends of its wings looked like a bit where a twig had broken off.  Greg spent ages looking very closely at it changing his mind yes it is a bug, no it isn't, until it flew away onto the tree next to us and literally dissappeared! 

We had a big camp fire chat with lots of campers and Greg geared up to make his legendary damper (that he has only made half a dozen times in his life), Ted gave us the idea to put brie into the middle and OH BOY it was good! The irls supplied lots of cooked marshmallows for everyone, we had a few drinks and lots of laughs - This is what camping is all about!

I must admit however, the road is dominated by Victorians - everyone at the campfire was from Victoria!  It was the same in 2008 when we travelled around, lots and lots of Victorians.

Ok, time to sign off before Teddy destroys the shop!