Rinyirru National Park – Kalpowar Crossing Campground

11 – 12 August

We left Maryfarms and took the Battlecamp Road into Rinyirru (Lakefield) National Park. We’d camped in the park before but not at Kalpowar Crossing. We stopped to collect firewood before we entered the national park and then at the old homestead where we had lunch. From there we continued on to the ranger station and had a look at the lagoon.

We made our way to our booked site at Kalpowar Crossing and set up camp. Kalpowar Crossing is a well laid our campground with very large sites suitable for all types of campers. There are toilets and access to the river – although swimming is definitely not permitted. There were a few people fishing while we were there.

You can walk down to the crossing - but beware of crocs

We had been having some issues with our solar set up and also discovered that our batteries hadn’t been charging properly while we drove. We were booked for two nights at Kalpowar but decided to just stay for one so we could go back to the main road and a powered site for a night. We had another three nights booked at Hann River Crossing, and had arranged to meet a birding friend there so didn’t want to have to cut that short due to lack of power.

We enjoyed a nice night at Kalpowar, and would probably stay there again, even though it was a mmuch busier campground than the stretch of isolated campsites at other spots within the national park.