Pinnarendi Station

 4 – 5 June 2021

The drive from Innot Hot Springs was only about 100km so we arrived around morning tea time. As well as camping, Pinnarendi Station also has a café so we ordered coffee while organising a campsite for the night. The campground is very well set up with powered and unpowered sites, a clean and tidy amenities block and access to laundry facilities. The site we were allocated was perfect - right on the end of a row with a great view out to the bush, but not too far from the amenities.

We don’t usually look for station stays, but this would have to be one of the best. Well marked walking tracks lead to three dams – Garden Dam, Big Dam and Number 1 Dam. Because we had a powered site, Mick was able to catch up on some photo editing while I spent another relaxing afternoon with a good book. There was a book exchange in the laundry (as there often is in caravan parks) so I was able to swap one I had finished a few days before, for one by a favourite author.

In the late afternoon we went for a walk and visited each of the dams. Number 1 Dam is supposed to be the best for birds but there wasn’t much action at the time we were there. It was a very nice, easy walk anyway.

Pinnarendi Station is a working cattle station that is a fabulous blend of station stay and caravan park – all the amenities you would expect, with access to bush right there. We will most probably be back some time for a longer stay.

In the morning we decided to try for Flat Creek Station out of Georgetown. We stopped at Mount Surprise for coffee then drove through Georgetown to Cumberland Dam for lunch. This is a lovely free (donations welcome) camp spot that is popular with bird watchers and caravanners alike. After lunch by the dam we headed off for Flat Creek Station – another spot that promised good bird watching.