GORV - Digital Magazine Issue #8 | Page 34

| 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 34 gorv.com.au 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