Elsey National Park NT

This is a little 10" x 12" sketch painting of the billabong on the Georgina River at Camooweal where we camped for a few days before crossing into the Northern Territory. I have some fabulous photos as well to do a big painting when we get home, especially of those horses that came down to drink and feed on the water lillies each day. That's a coolibah in the right foreground. There are also 2 brolgas on the island.

After coming into the Northern Territory and camping at a bore on the Barkley Tableland, we stayed overnight at the 3 Ways Roadhouse (on Wednesday 4 July to watch the State of Origin) then on the next night to the campground behind the Daly Waters Pub for the 'beef and barra' dinner and the live entertaintment afterwards (and it certainly was 'live' .. a laugh a minute and some good singing and bush poetry). We shared a table here with Klaus and Gisela - originally German for sure but a long time living in the hinterland behind the Sunshine Coast in Qld. We ran into Klaus and Gisela, travelling in a motorhome, twice more over ensuing days, once at "Fran's Devonshire Teas" at Larrimah and again at the hot springs at Mataranka. We also met a couple from North Haven at the Daly Waters pub who promised to say hello to my sisters at Laurieton!

After all this high living we retreated to a peaceful campsite at Elsey National Park for 3 days, and we have since moved on to Katherine, here for a few days then on to Darwin.

Here are a couple of photos from the Elsey camp-

Our campsite in the Elsey - there were a series of grassed areas and you could choose a bay around them, a really good arrangement to let you get the right aspect for the sun. The only problem to deal with was the big sprinklers that came on from1.30 to  3.00pm daily (you found this out later,usually), hence the little blue tarp!

This is the view from behind the tarp!