| THE WALLABY TRACK WITH LIONEL MUSSELL
LAPPING LAWN HILL GORGE
LIONEL FULFILS HIS LONG-HELD DREAM OF VISITING LAWN HILL
GORGE, QLD. NOT WITHOUT SOME MISHAPS, MIND YOU.
Last month I said I'd tell you
more about our time as school
photographers. It was great
travelling the country and we
went to a lot of places off the
beaten track.
Murphy was a constant
companion, of course, and
he played a rotten trick in
Townsville – he gave me a
severe dose of Ross River
fever the day I was to take
pictures at the West Townsville
State School where famous
Australian singer Gladys
Moncrieff received her
education. The library on the
top floor of the three-storey
building was where I had to
work and to get all my gear up
there and then get all the class
photos done was almost too
much – I collapsed into bed
when I got back to my caravan.
WHAT'S THAT NOISE?
Lawn Hill Gorge, Qld, has been
on my bucket list for some
years but I've been a bit wary
of the road conditions. I was
stopped at the Burke and
Wills Roadhouse thinking that
I should ask someone what
the road to the gorge was
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like when suddenly I heard my
name called! It was two friends
from my Australian Caravan
Club branch in Gippsland, Vic,
and they had just been in to
Lawn Hill!
Armed with a first-hand
road report I headed for
Gregory Downs in high spirits.
My TomTom GPS had never
let me down so I followed
its instructions to take the
Camooweal road.
The road deteriorated and
suddenly I heard a loud,
high-pitched warning sound.
Coming to a rapid stop, I
turned everything off that I
could think of but the beeping
continued. I went into the back
of Yemmy and discovered that
it was the smoke detector!
The dust had act