Day 13 – Mt Huxley Track    

 The Currawong was still hungry in the morning, so we gave him a weetbix to keep him going for the day, he thought it was great.  We ate our breakfast cereal too, and went into town to the Ranger station, because the track into Mt McCall requires a key and permit to go into the world heritage area.  Unfortunately it is Sunday and there was no one at the Ranger station, so we did another track in the area.

We went up the Mt Huxley track, which climbed up the side of the mountains towards Mt Huxley, the track seemed to be made of rock, usually with lots of grip with some bumpy bits and eroded holes thrown in, overall the track looked scarier than it really was.  There were great views along the way looking out over Queenstown, Lake Burbury, and big mines in the distance.  The whole area was mountainous, with low shrubs and bushes covering most hills, with exposed rocks at the peaks, that is if you could see them through the cloud.  It was nice and I was happy to have had a bit of challenging 4WDing.  We snacked on cashews at the end of the track, and again stopped on the way back overlooking Queenstown to eat some cheese spread sandwiches for lunch.

We finished by early afternoon, and thought about what to do next, eventually after stocking up on food again, we drove to Darwin dam, but found the camping around there was only for vehicles, not much good for tents, so we decided to go to Strahan to spend a day around there, which also meant we could call the Ranger in Queenstown in advance. 

We got to Strahan, and kept driving thorough to Macquarie heads.  We found a nice spot to camp amongst pine trees.  We were happy to find no bugs, but soon noticed that leaches were attaching themselves to us every now and then which sent Jo silly.  We had some pasta for tea, and went to bed.