Day 4, Sunday 24/06/2012 Mt Ive Station

I went for a walk around the farm with Michael this morning.  There weren’t any puppies this time, but we did find an emu in the chook pen! I took a photo of Michael using his camera, on the old farm cart, using his magic panoramic function.

It was just a partial pack up this morning. We’re camping here tonight, but have to pack up our rooftop tents to go for a drive.

The Flight Path was a 32km 4wd track that takes you touring around the expansive sheep station. I wouldn’t rate it as the moderate to difficult written on the mud map. I would say easy with a few tricky spots that would rate moderate crossing some of the steeper banked creek beds. If you’re up for some real excitement though, drive the multiple creek crossings in the wet! Maybe this would be the difficult rating.

It was fun to head off in a convoy, 4wding in some absolutely amazing scenery. We all let our tyres down a bit to 30psi to reduce the chance of punctures on the rocky track. It was a fun day had by all exploring the 900km2 property. There were sheep, goats and kangaroos galore. The Williams family had a lamb that decided to adopt them. Jess cried when they had to leave it there and drive on with it screaming after them.

Amazing contrast of green shrubs with the orange rocks. Little pillars everywhere, but the most impressive being the Pete’s Pillars. They are rhyolite rock formations formed by volcanic activity millions of years ago.

It is so much more exciting when you have a turn driving and Jordan agrees. She’ll be better at 4wding than most by the time she gets her ‘Ps’.

It took most of the day with lunch at a rocky creek bed near Pete’s Pillars.

Back at camp and out came the nibblies for ‘happy hour’. A bit of exploration and photography around the property. The baby goats were so cute. One was stuck, so Jess convinced Col to go and save it.

Thank goodness Lisa and Stuart stopped for firewood. It was beautiful sitting around a warm fire. Bruce decided to get out the old bottle of Port.