Mt E is a 500,000 acre 6,000 head working cattle station, with the tourism add on. Very big lightly wooded campground, no power or water to sites but great facilities. Recently added a new amenities block and unexpectedly they have a couple of washing machines and also sell diesel, $2.95 litre. Good spot to stay for a few nights.

The other bonus is a cafe set up that does evening meals and warm station beef meat pies.

There is a nightly set menu featuring the Stations own beef. Preceded by some time around the communal fire pit. We indulged in a steak night, great pieces of beef filet cooked to perfection! Came with some salads, haven’t seen a piece of lettuce for going on two weeks! So really appreciated!

Finished with some pears poached in red wine, plus cream.

A bit of 4WD driving is the main go to thing here. To get to the gorges and swimming holes a bit of rough track driving is required.

The track to the ‘Swimming Hole’ is not too bad, a little creek has to be crossed. Looks worse than what it is. Allthego followed a couple of more experienced characters and no problems at all.

Some great scenery and a pleasant plunge in the pool. There is also a short walk here through the woodland and back along the creek bank, some great old trees in this area.

The track out to Warla gorge is a different story to the one to the Swimming Hole, 20 km in total the last 5 of which is rather rougher than some might like. One has to weave along some rock strewn rutted track, cross a bit of thickish mud and a water pool with a greasy bottom. Took it slow. Homealone somewhat unimpressed with the possibility of getting stranded. But a number of people on the track, so help would be at hand.

Allthego found the Warla gorge worth the effort. The river was flowing along waist high off a short low waterfall, a big sandy beach for all to sit on and watch the action.

The trip back to camp went ok, but the obstacles hadn’t disappeared!

In the evenings we generally manage to get in one or two games of Bananagram, a scrabble variant where you play your own ‘scrabble’ patch. First to use all your letters wins, a few rules of course. Homealone is cleaning up most evenings, leaving Allthego in the wake. It must be all the Wordle that she plays these days.

Time to move on to the next stop at Manning Gorge about 70km along the Gibb. On the way we need to stop at Mt Barnett for fuel and a pantry top up. There is also a spare rim and tyre to arrange!