Everyone was up early and stinging for the legendary scones that were coming out of the Ellenbrae station oven at 0800hrs… packing up never went so quickly…but Gordie did have a space issue trying to squeeze everything into the Titan!!!

Branch got on the bandwagon as “gasgate” was still ongoing….and reassured everyone that there were sufficient gas cookers to manage the catering for this leg of the journey….

We drove back to the station and ordered the scones – they definitely lived up to their reputation – light fluffy with delicious fresh cream.

The grounds of Ellenbrae Station were like an oasis in the desert…lush and green with abundant birdlife and other forms of wildlife!!

After enjoying the early morning tea and discussing tales of woe with other fellow Gibb travellers we were on our way to Drysdale River Station. Everyone felt pretty privileged as we had so far been fortunate on our Gibb River Road journey – others had shredded tyres, broken axles and various other calamities…

At the Kalumburu turnoff Trev put up the drone to get some footage of the convoy – the scenery was quite green looking down on the tree canopy.

Gordie had been in the lead and rocketing along at his favourite corrugation speed – as fast as possible – but while we were waiting for the Hackies and Wells at the turnoff Branch had detected a lost nut on Gordies front guard – all other cars were so far unscathed.

We continued on to Drysdale River Station – the road was not too bad with some corrugations but not as bad as the beginning of the GRR yesterday…

The Toyota Precision Driving Team (aka where are we??) of Dave and Rose came in behind Gordie at pace and overshot the turnoff to Drysdale River Station resulting in a dust storm of mammoth proportion as the car came to a skidding halt…

We checked in and set up camp under some shady trees – booked dinner for 630pm at the restaurant and then ate lunch.

A short drive away was the Miner’s Pool – a waterhole for swimming which we all went to and had a dip in the cool refreshing water – the area looked a bit croc friendly but the station staff assured us the there were only a few freshies there…

After a refreshing soak we went back along the bank only to be told by some other campers that there was a croc sunning himself on a log just on the bank….

He was only smallish but pretty ugly – Annette stated she would definitely not have gone in if she had seen him prior to our dip.

Drysdale Station is a working cattle station that runs shorthorn cattle – seen in abundance as we drove back from Miner’s Pool – some horns shorter than others!!!

Back at the station we had showers – the amenities at the Drysdale River Station are great – and Dave got the party started by lighting up his tent with their led strip lights!!

We walked down for dinner in the open air at the Station Restaurant – delicious buffet style roast and homemade desserts!