Drove to Forsayth via Georgetown and shuffled the vans into very cosy sites in the caravan park with much anticipation of tomorrow's tour of Cobbold Gorge.

We left at 10am for a one hour 4WD bus ride to Cobbold Gorge on Robin Hood Station. Our driver, Stephen, was a wealth of information as he shared many details of the geology, flora and fauna, early settlement, and mining and grazing history of the area. Upon arrival at the village we had time for a quick dip in the infinity pool (at least Jamie and Carolann did) before our yummy supplied lunch. Then it was back on to another 4WD bus to take us to the gorge where we walked for about 2km including over a glass bridge (not so scary after all). After the walk, we boarded a very narrow aluminium boat to negotiate the gorge on the water. The rock formations and reflections were beautiful and we saw a few freshwater crocodiles sunning themselves beside the stream. Once again, the guides were both entertaining and interesting to listen to even though it was a big effort to keep up with ours on the walking section. Off the boat and back on the bus to the Cobbold village, then our morning bus again to travel back to Forsayth by about 5:30pm. Conveniently, we were dropped of at the local Goldfields Hotel (also owned by the family who own Cobbold) so we had a drink and walked back to the caravan park for a well earned sleep.

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