Python Pool
Fortescue River
Old machinery and Sturt desert pea in flower at the old Millstream Station homestead
Al barbqueing our dinnerDay 88
Woke to an overcast morning and our early morning wakeup call was the sound of a "Wicked" campervan with backpackers arriving at the camp spot for brekkie. We packed up and got away and happy to get to a loo and fuel stop at Auski roadhouse only 17km away. We stocked up on ice for our fridge and with fresh food getting down is becoming a beer fridge, which is very important..... The road to Millstream nat. Park is mostly gravel and the inevitable red dirt and we wonder what the inside of the trailer will look like. We arrive about 12 and have a look around the old homestead and camp ground and after chatting to the camp hosts we decide to check out the other camp ground at Crossing Pool and where we have lunch. The pool is a river pool and with the overcast day is not so inviting for a swim so we decide to head to Python Pool in the north of the park and hope to stay at the campground there tonight. It’s an hour’s drive from here and on a mostly gravel road but no dramas and we arrive about 4pm and set up camp in the Snake Creek campground and we are the only campers! Nearby is Python pool and we head there for a swim and try and get rid of our Pilbara fake tans!! It doesn’t matter how much you clean hands/feet and whatever else it has a tinge of red!! The spring fed pool is gorgeous and not too cold and we enjoy our “evening bath” in this little piece of heaven between the surrounding Spinifex and mulga hills and sheer red cliff faces. Dinner back at the camp and although a couple of other campers arrive it is very peaceful and not too cold. It is a bit cloudy and hope we don’t get rain overnight as it will make the 20km drive out of here to the main northern highway a bit slippery.
Woke to an overcast morning and our early morning wakeup call was the sound of a "Wicked" campervan with backpackers arriving at the camp spot for brekkie. We packed up and got away and happy to get to a loo and fuel stop at Auski roadhouse only 17km away. We stocked up on ice for our fridge and with fresh food getting down is becoming a beer fridge, which is very important..... The road to Millstream nat. Park is mostly gravel and the inevitable red dirt and we wonder what the inside of the trailer will look like. We arrive about 12 and have a look around the old homestead and camp ground and after chatting to the camp hosts we decide to check out the other camp ground at Crossing Pool and where we have lunch. The pool is a river pool and with the overcast day is not so inviting for a swim so we decide to head to Python Pool in the north of the park and hope to stay at the campground there tonight. It’s an hour’s drive from here and on a mostly gravel road but no dramas and we arrive about 4pm and set up camp in the Snake Creek campground and we are the only campers! Nearby is Python pool and we head there for a swim and try and get rid of our Pilbara fake tans!! It doesn’t matter how much you clean hands/feet and whatever else it has a tinge of red!! The spring fed pool is gorgeous and not too cold and we enjoy our “evening bath” in this little piece of heaven between the surrounding Spinifex and mulga hills and sheer red cliff faces. Dinner back at the camp and although a couple of other campers arrive it is very peaceful and not too cold. It is a bit cloudy and hope we don’t get rain overnight as it will make the 20km drive out of here to the main northern highway a bit slippery.
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