The day had arrived to leave this gorgeous part of Australia and continue our trek along the Savannah Way towards Cairns. After hotwiring the Titan we set off.

As we departed Gordie took the opportunity to engage in the somewhat futile exercise of cleaning windscreens…

The road to Gregory Downs was not too bad – tarred in some places – but very dusty…. We past the Century Mine and headed across the savannah area arriving in Gregory Downs for morning tea.

Morning tea was at Murray’s Place – “ best coffee in the gulf”….and the most delicious homemade apple and cinnamon muffins!

After another awkward hotwire…

on the Burketown for lunch at the Morning Glory Café….

and we stuck up a conversation with 3 guys on motorbikes who were doing the circuit….and it turned out that one of the guys Jason lived literally around the corner from Dave and Rosie – his dog even poos on their lawn each time he walks past their place he confessed!!!

After a long discussion with the guys who were keen for info on the Gibb River Road as that was where they were headed we went to get fuel and found the servo was just closing…. A bit of an issue as we did not have enough fuel in the tank to reach Normanton and  there were no more fuel stops between Burketown and there….

Yet another unique roadsign!!

Dave in the Pearl had plenty of fuel – no issue – Gordie and Trev needed fuel – we had 1 jerrycan and Dave had 2 so after doing the maths we realised we would just make it so continued on to Leichhardt Falls our free camp for the night.

The Leichhardt River was still flowing and there was some water coming over the falls. There are salties in the river so no swimming.

We saw lots of birds and a lone freshie sunning himself on a rock as well as a couple of wallabies that came down to the river to drink….

After a Sunday sermon and afternoon tea we walked around the falls and river – the river bed was huge and must be an impressive sight in the wet!

The bridge over was ridiculously narrow – hard to believe road trains fit across but we saw one late that night!

The full moon came up as we got ready for bed – beautiful clear night sky!!