Day 45 – Calvert River to Seven Emu Station (Thur June 7^th)

We woke to the sound of Dingos howling, which made us really feel like we were in the bush. It was nice to see our first NT sunrise, and it was our coldest morning so far, at 8 degrees.

All rugged up

We arrived at Seven Emu Station by 11am and met our host Frank Shadforth. He is the aboriginal owner of this remote NT cattle station. The Shadforth’s organic cattle station contains large reaches of both the Robinson and Calvert rivers as well as 55km of exclusive coastline on the Gulf of Carpenteria. 

Frank welcomes tourists, campers, birdwatchers, fisherman and four wheel drive explores. He is really laid back, and cruisy and told us that we were the boss, you can do whatever and go wherever you want here.

The campsites are about 6km from the homestead, and Frank escorts you to your site and lets you take your pick. Frank kept this bull at bay, while we drove through the holding yard.

We were the only ones here, and were blown away when we saw the camp spots up high on the river bank overlooking the Robinson river. Wow!

Our view

Campsite 1 - we didn't camp here as we liked our view better

Camping is $50 per night, the sites all have rustic style bough sheds for shelter which were built by stockman. They have pit toilets with a view of the Robinson river and open fires. Frank collects wood for each fire, we also collected extra for tonight. They also have a drum of drinking water and a drum of washing water for our use.

Here is the link www.sevenemustation.com.au

We choose our spot, set up, then did a heap of hand washing, as Cam had threw up all through his bed last night L

After the cleaning duties, we took the kids down to the river, they collected rocks and Damon flicked a lure. There is a track which you can drive down onto the rocky bank of the river, there are crocs here, so we had our eyes peeled. 

Our camp is up on the left bank

We are about 40km up river from the river mouth, the station has access to the mouth of the Robinson river via boat or by road. The beach is so remote it has no name, and is referred to as ‘the beach with no name’. 

We love it here, so have decided to stay 3 nights, the only thing is we have run out of cash! There are no credit card/eftpos facilities here, we managed to scrape together $50 for tonight in coins, but will need to drive into Borroloola tomorrow to get some more money. We’ll also stock up on food and fuel, and get some stuff done on the interent.

We got the solar showers out this arvo for the first time this trip, it was nice showering up on the hill looking out at our view.

Sienna pointing out the evening star

The sunset was magic, with some extra redness from a fire burning on the horizon.

Damon and i sat up later than usual by the fire tonight, listening to some music and watching the moon rise. The moon is still bright, so much so that it lit the opposite bank up, we stood on the edge of the cliff and took in the beauty of it all. The stars were shining bright and were reflecting twinkles on the river.

It’s so peaceful here, all we can hear apart from the crackling of the fire is the river flowing over the river rocks below us. 

It’s just magic!