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Carnarvon Gorge

  Tuesday 6 th July Today we are heading to Carnarvon Gorge. We have wanted to visit here ever since my mum and dad did so in about 1988 and raved about it. We have arranged to meet up with Heather and Michael Munro here too, they are travelling up from Ballina and we will travel together for the next ten days or so.  We first met this couple in Singapore in 2013. We left Emerald and stopped in at Rolleston to top up fuel and water. This is the last place you get to do so. Lovely coffee van in the local park run by volunteers was much appreciated by many travellers. It has been a lovely drive today with lots to look at on the horizon as we passed by the Minerva Hills National Park with its spectacular peaks. Although the sky looks brilliant we are starting to feel the chill. Notice Eric's stance in the next pic, he remained in that posture for the next couple of days.  Heather and Michael drove up from Roma.   We pulled into the Sandstone Park reception just as another van did a