Get lost with Russ and Margy: Saltwater Creek

On the trip we saw a white headed stilt in a drain near the road as well as about 6 x Australian pratincole, maybe a cisticola and a Nankeen kestrel.

W stopped at the entrance to Saltwater Creek camp to explore. We walked 700m to the furthest southern campsite and liked it but moved on to the entrance to the other 2 northern camp sites and walked the 1.5km in. We saw loads of birds in both locations and possible fishing spots, so we decided to stay at the first campsite and drove in.

At Saltwater we saw;

Honeyeaters – yellow, dusky, brown, white gaped, graceful/yellow spotted (couldn’t remember if it just had dark colouring between beak and eye), bar breasted, rufus throated, white throated, blue faced,

Bee eaters

Double bar finches

Masked finch

Spangled drongo

Radjah shelduck

Doves – bar shouldered, peaceful

Large egret

While I was birdwatching, Russ caught 11 barramundi on soft plastics (his new favourite) – 4 of which were big enough to keep. Lunch with a glass of crisp white wine was one of the best I remember! Happy to stay here for a while! Other delights of this site are that its not dusty, there's hardly anyone here, its shady, plenty of fresh water from the river for cool off showers during the day (and a neighbour who offered to get milk from Musgrave Roadhouse for us).

We went fishing at dusk but no luck this time – only undersize barra. Early next morning Blair dragged (as if!) Russ off fishing again and unfortunately, nothing of a decent size was caught. I wanted to see the blue winged kookaburras making their racket but every time I got close enough to see how they made their raucous call, they moved on. We all decided to move on.