We're on the road!

Wed 14^th May

Aaah, the tranquillity.  At our bush camp in Mungo National Park, under the soft light of a huge full moon, we’re enjoying a quiet port.  We left the Murray Valley Hwy at Tooleybuc, just beyond Swan Hill, this morning and travelled north through Balranald.  It didn’t take long to feel like the ‘outback’ as we travelled through flat saltbush country, with the last 100km to Mungo on red dirt.  Plenty of wild emus to be seen; we stopped to acquaint ourselves with a shingleback lizard too.

I first visited Mungo NP nearly 17 years ago and was really keen to return.  There’s a new visitor centre and day area, a couple of boardwalks where it used to be possible to walk on the sand dunes and the courtyard of the shearers’ quarters is now paved as opposed to dirt.  However, nothing can change the magic of this ancient landscape.  There’s a 70km self-guided drive loop which cuts across the lakebed and snakes around the sand dunes – we did half of it this afternoon, with multiple sightseeing stops, then settled in at the Belah camp.

About to hit the red dirt - beautiful

Under the full Mungo moon

Sand dunes known as the Walls of China