26 June 2019
Today started with laundry. Exciting stuff. Around 1030 am we headed down to the jetty for the Chamberlain Gorge boat cruise. The sandstone cliffs of the gorge were beautiful and we saw, and were squirted, by plenty of Archer fish. Lunch after the cruise and then Bill and I headed off to Jackaroos waterhole for an arvo swim. I was pretty disappointed not to be able to do the full El Questro gorge walk, but the cancellation of the cruise yesterday, and then being re-booked onto the 11 am cruise really snookered us for doing any longer walks.
Bill and I lobbed in to the cruiser with Dad and we headed up to the top of Saddle Back Ridge to watch the sun go down. It was a bit bumpy and a couple of tight turns, but the road wasn’t as bad as we thought it might have been. The view certainly was lovely. After dinner (venison backstrap cooked over the camp fire – ‘lish) we headed to the Station to listen to some live music. We didn’t stay long, all agreeing that the noise coming from the direction of the ‘musician’ couldn’t really be described as music.
Whilst I don’t want to be an El Questro hater (there are plenty of them around already) suffice to say that I wouldn’t rush back here. Perhaps I would think differently if we hadn’t been stuffed around with the gorge cruise and had been able to fit in some of the longer walks. Everything just came up a bit short of expectations.
And as I was writing this, Bill got crapped on by a bird. Made him a bit nostalgic for home and Skully I think.
Travelling the Big Island 