Day 42 31/5/16 King Edward River to Drysdale River Station 110km

Easy start today since we don’t have far to go. When we are almost ready to go Tony notices that his maxx tracks have come away from the van and are lying loose on his back bar.  Strangely enough Michael noticed them missing a couple of days ago on the road, but we convinced ourselves that nothing was wrong since Tony had had them moved to the top of his checker plate box.  We hadn’t noticed that he had moved them back  to the rear of the van.
All packed up and a goodbye to Noelene and Paul, they are off to Kullumbaru today, hope they fare well. 
An easyish morning drive and we arrive at Miner’s Pool, Tony suggests that we have a swim then go on to Drysdale River Station where we will stay overnight and have tea. 
After our swim, it’s a lovely little sandy bottom river, Michael and I head off to Drysdale River Station.  Tony and Jennifer will stay at Miner’s Pool, we will meet up at Drysdale next morning.
We have lunch with a nice glass of white for me and a beer for Michael we sit and chat with some Chinese tourists, there is great excitement from one and they head off to a tree in the yard and start taking photographs.  A snake!!!  Unfortunately I don’t have my camera with me so we miss out.  Apparently it has been in the yard for several days now (lady in the store).
Back to the van to try to rest during the high heat, Michael writes the blog, I lie down and listen to a book.  A couple come over and we spend an hour chatting to them about our and their travel experiences, some very useful stuff is discovered this way.
Off to the restaurant for dinner.  I was not greatly impressed by tonight’s menu,no buffet and Lasagne or chicken Tikka to choose from, however if I don’t have to cook it, I’m up for a dinner out.  We have to place our order when we book in, we order the chicken tikka.  The little restaurant was very well run, we had our dinner booked for 6:00, we went over early for a drink.  We were told that we would be served at table 4 and to sit in the beer garden to enjoy our drinks.  Promptly at 6 the girl came over and told us that our dinner was being put on our table.  The chicken was very nice, nicer in fact than I expected.  We followed this with tiramisu for dessert, then back to van for cuppa and tablets.