Keep River

The next day, we decided to do the walk from the campground to the nearby Aboriginal Art site.  After finally getting ourselves sorted we started on the track.  5 minutes down the track, whilst we stopped to put Jess in the kid carrying backpack, our friends from yesterday with their kids wandered up as well.  They had decided not to do homework that day (their two older kids were doing distance learning), and do the walk instead.  We walked along the path chatting until they split off to do the harder lookout walk, whilst we continued to the art site. 

Off we go on our walk

A great walk for the kids

What are we looking at Dad?

Sacred site sign adds to the mystique

 

The escarpment was red, tall, and very rugged.  We enjoyed being so close to it as the track meandered along the base.  The girls did really well again with the bush walking, and Savannah is developing into a real bush walker.  After seeing the small amount of art, we did the walk back to camp, and kicked back with a little lunch.  The days were definitely warming up, so it was just as well we had put up our annex this time.

That afternoon, our friends, Matt and Debbie, invited us over for scones and an experimental damper.  Matt had wrapped the damper up with jam in the middle before cooking it.  Assuring us he’d done it before and it had worked a treat, it was sad that this one had not quite cooked, it looked delicious though.  The scones were a fantastic alternative, and were scoffed pretty quickly!

The next morning, we drove down to the first campsite, and did one of our favourite walks in the whole of Australia.  The walk takes only 1 hour, (2 kms), but it winds through the scrub, up and around the escarpment, finally dropping back down and back along the bottom of the rock walls.  The views are spectacular, and an extremely pleasant walk.  Savannah showed off her increasing bushwalking skills by following the blue arrows, and leading us around the track.

Our little bushwalker

We just love this scenery - walking amongst it

This is one way to see the sights

 

That afternoon, we figured we’d return the afternoon tea favour and cook a cake and a damper for Matt, Debbie and the kids.  In short, the cake was an unmitigated disaster.  Glenn again knew what he had done wrong, but we are 2 for 2 on cake failures.  With birthdays coming up soon, we’d better get it right!!!!  The damper saved the day, being devoured by everyone.

We had definitely developed a very nice friendship, and all the kids were getting along famously.  We discussed our common travel plans, and lined up to hopefully travel some of the Gibb River Road together.  We left for Kununurra the next day with plans to meet up before tackling the Kimberley proper.