Bulita homestead and tufa dams

Camping by the tufa dams

A last minute decision, we decided to drive into Gregory National Park to do the Bulita Stock Route. It was getting late in the day so we stopped and camped at the Tufa Dams on the way in. We had learnt about the formation of tufa at Flora River. It was interesting seeing the different tufa formations in the limestone creek. The tufa had formed large and smaller dams. Some of the smaller dams had dried up so we got to walk around and look at the tufa formation and there were a few large dams still with clear water for swimming.

Enjoying the tufa dams with water

Catch at Bulita Homestead

We drove on further to the Bulita Homestead for a look. It was great reading and learning about the history of life on Bulita, the hardship, the slavery and the way of life back then. Emma and Kate enjoyed going through every building learning about meat houses, workers quarters, pump houses and of course out houses. Darrin could not go past the opportunity to throw a line in the water and of course caught one. He let it go though to live another day.

Boab at Bulita

Now that we were in Boab country the girls were just mesmerised by these amazing trees. They have made plans to plant one in the backyard and make it a cubby. They had so much fun climbing the massive tree by the homestead. Boab trees live for hundreds of years so they are quite special. They are full of leaves and boab nuts in the wet season and lose their leaves in the dry to save water.

After reading a sign at the homestead we discovered that towing is not permitted on the stock route so therefore we were unable to do that trek. As we had done this trek on our first trip around Australia we knew that it was very rocky and slow track to complete.