This would have to be one of the best finds of our trip for not being mentioned in any camp books or maps.
As the Newcastle Waters camps was full to overflowing we carried on and came across this place by accident. It turned out to be the old road down low below the actual new road and bridge. A reasonable drive in on old seal and we came to the waterhole under the new bridge. The seal by this time was a bit broken up in places and there was no way out to the road without turning back.
What a beautiful spot with birds galore, frogs and dragonflies by the hundreds. There was a bit of road Jules and I walked a bit further on till we came to water over the road making it impassable. We did find a dead pelican there, poor thing, and wondered how it came to an untimely demise.
A couple of frogs kept us company overnight with their song, trucks passing on the overhead bridge kept us entertained and dragonflies made their homed on our aerials for laying eggs.
The water which was really only a billabong as so dry around here, had a perfect mirror image for photographs as you will see in the photos.
There was also a tree there we have seen nowhere else in our travels. This very dark green leafed tree seemed to have been planted in plantations at one time, there being rows and rows of them down near the other waterhole.
After a beautiful night's sleep in the tranquillity of this spot, we were all able to turn around and go back the way we had come and continue our journey north to the next overnight camp.
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