Day 350 – Injured Wildlife

• King River – Banka Banka
• 516kms
• 29°c

I thought we were up and pulling out nice & early and was quite surprised to see that most of the vans had already left. There were lots of oversized loads on the road today, some absolutely huge diggers and some massive menacing looking tanks. We decided to stay at Banka Banka again as even though there was no power, they had water and really nice hot showers. Once again the lady kindly gave Ella & Occy an icypole each and we were shown to a nice shady spot.

We got chatting to our neighbours; Glenn & Dan and soon discovered they were caring for a baby dingo they’d found about 70kms back. The poor thing looked so sad and Glenn told us that it seems like he’d fallen off a moving vehicle by it’s injuries, she had sprayed him with antiseptic and bandaged him up and kindly let Ella feed him. Boy was he a gutz, after a full tummy and lots of pats and attention he went off to sleep for a while. After dinner I could hear him howling and asked if I could give him a cuddle, I wrapped him up like a baby and rocked him to sleep, he was just scared and lonely, such a beautiful creature.

Whilst Banka was napping Ella & Occy went over to visit the horses and cow we'd met when we were here last time.

Banka Banka Station, $25 a night, water, amenities