El Questro!

Welcome to El Questro Wilderness Park.

1,000,000 acres of bliss..... you can camp or stay in their many types of accommodation (including an exclusive room costing $2,500 per night!).

There is a main camping ground, close to the township or you might be lucky enough to secure one of the 25 "private" camping sites.

We managed to score site number 15, with neighbours well out of sight (100m on one side and 400m on the other).

A few metres from our caravan is this stunning river, which also has shallow still pools in some spots. 5 nights of heaven..... we didn't want to leave!!!!!

Sulphur-crested and black cockatoos fly to the river’s edge to socialise and drink water.

We have enjoyed the sun setting at 6.30pm but since crossing the border (and despite being only a few km’s from the old time zone), the usn sets (and rises, mind you) at 5 o’clock. We decide this is ‘just silly’ and keep our clocks on the old time. Who wants to have dinner at 5 o’clock?

‘The dry’ is truly dry, and there is no humidity in the air.

Morning mist rises from the river as soon as it is sunkissed.‘Pandanus spiralis’ lines the shores; great swordlike leaves point in all directions in search of sun.


Chops for dinner, a guitar, and a can of insect repellent. What more do you need? (The wine is hiding out of view....)




The evening fire is a breeze to light – a few strands of grass and a piece of paperbark will do the trcik nicely; but morning carries with it a heavy dew and so it can be laborious to build enough flame to cook the morning’s bacon & egg sandwich.




Curiously, this morning’s campfire smells of camphor; a fresh, rich, lingering smell that is pleasant and unlike the usual sooty scents of a fire.

Friar birds greet the morning enthusiastically, with tone deaf honks and screeches. These birds appear vulturous – hooked lumpy beaks and skinned heads.

Jase catches a beautiful barramundi on his second cast, right outside our campsite.

There are lots of river crossings to enjoy (or endure) at El Questro.

The Patrol was born for this!

The 4WD tracks vary in difficulty. This one was relatively easy, allowing both driver and passenger to admire the everchanging views during the journey.

Lots of grevillea and acacia in this piece of Australia

The view from one of the many 4WD tracks in El Questro. You almost get a bird's eye view of the surrounding landscape.

These footprints at our campsite look ominously like crocodile prints....

although they are only a few centimetres wide....