Lawn Hill National Park

What a wonderful find this was.  This was one place that we had been told about before we left home and it lived up to all expectations.  Lawn Hill was beautiful and so were the camp grounds at Adele's Grove.

Evan's diary entry:

Today we're at Lawn Hill.
While we were in Lawn Hill we went canoeing, swimming in the cascades and park and camping ground gorge.

Sarah made a bow but it broke.

I made one too.  It lasted. Every target I hit on the spot.

It's a good bow.

My Diary Entry:

We went for a walk in the Lover Gorge at Lawn Hill National Park and visited Dog Dreaming.  It was an Aboriginal cave with paintings.  They were no where near as impressive as the ones at Carnarvon Gorge.

We had lunch and then progressed down to the cascades for a well deserved swim.  It is very hot.  The water was beautifully warm.

The children made bows and arrows based on their imaginations being piqued from reading Eragon.  The trees at the camp ground at Adele's Grove were well suited to making bows.  They pretended to go hunting with them and practise their archery skills.
Evan and Harry looked very funny with their "armour" on: a few layers of t-shirts, undies on their heads and socks on their hands - Classic!

9/5/07

Today we spent 1 1/4 hours paddling up Lawn Hill Gorge. The spectacular red cliffs on either side were beautiful.

To start, Steve, Evan and Harry went in the three man canoe.  They looked surprisingly like  the Berenstain bear father and his 2 cubs as they rowed out from shore.  Sarah and I shared the second canoe.  I started out in the front and could not for the life of me control the thing.  We stopped and swapped places - it made a HUGE difference.  There must be some physics based rule as to why it is best to have the weight in the back of the canoe, not the front.

We paddled up to the falls and got out and had a swim in the beautiful warm water.  On the way back Sarah, Evan and I paddled back in the big canoe and Steve and Harry took the small one.

It was a lot of fun.