First Free Camping in Gregory Downs - by Grace

After leaving Karumba, we drove a long way and finally arrive at Gregory Downs. We found a great spot near the lovely fresh creek, but some people weren’t very pleasant with us there. A man from one of the groups came and told us not to camp near him, anyway, hopefully that was just a bad start! We ignore him and unpack, then check out the river, which is fresh and has NO crocodiles!

Parking the Caravan right next to the river!!

Once we unpacked, we get our swimmers on and jump in the lovely fresh water, it was beautiful. Emma and I explored the awesome rocks and we found some mud and put it on our face, I know, eeewww! That was our bath so we got our pj’s on and had dinner, which was noodles, YUM!!

On the next day we woke up and did a bit of school work, and then again we play in the water.

We have lunch, then set up the camp fire that we lit that night. We see it is getting dark, so we light the fire and toast marshmallows, and have a chat with our friends. Finally it is 6.00pm so we go and eat our Wood fired pizzas at a man’s house, he was doing it to raise money for The Royal Flying Doctor Service. We wonder what they will be like. We get there and nobody is there, but the people are very nice we had an interesting night, chatting to the owners Murray and Ronnie! The pizzas weren’t that good as they were badly burnt but we ate them to be nice. Then 2 more people came, we get chicken wings and homemade ice-cream, then it got late so we left to go back to the caravan. We got back and watched the majestic stars that twinkled like glitter. That was the most stars I have ever seen!

The next morning we jumped in the water, and floated down the stream, and swung on the rope hanging above the creek.  Mum went running and so dad had the idea to challenge all of us to run 2 kilometres non-stop.  He said ‘’no way you can do that’’! I wanted to prove him wrong so I accepted the challenge, and I made it! Then we were ready to go, good bye Gregory Downs!

I really like our first free camping I am looking forward to the next free camping!