Genoa

We spent the night at the small town of Genoa which has a free camp.  Australia is full of free camping sites, so we take full advantage of most free sites or inexpensive campgrounds.  If laundry needs to be done then we look for a powered paid campground.  As we turned into the free site we noticed many large branches strewn all over the ground, broken off from the previous night's storm.  The rain flooded a few campsites but that was all soaked in by the time we got there.  We found a site, unpacked our gear, and set up.  Our camp neighbour said duckbill platypuses can be found in the river, but unfortunately we didn't see any on our walk.  Big billowing storm clouds quickly developed and headed our way.  We made for home, and just got back as the rain hit.  Loud cracks of thunder, and flashing lightning put on a show, as buckets of rain streamed down for well over an hour.  This area is considered rainforest so this much rain should not surprise us!

                                             Platypuses live in this river.

                                         Young people having fun in the river.

                                          Local watering hole.

                                         This picture doesn't do the storm justice.

                                         A beautiful rainbow to say all is well!