Kate, Geoff and I have just spent two nights at Billy’s Camp, a bush style camping area that’s part of Morning Glory River Resort. Kate car-camped with her Dune tent attached at the back of the car. Geoff had his instant-up tent. And I had my trusty Trakkadu campervan.
I’ve wanted to camp at Billy’s for a while, but the tracks into this spot have been a bit difficult to access with a 2WD since the floods last October. The attraction? It’s about 1.5 km from the nearest campsite, so you don’t feel like you’re camping at a resort or caravan park: you can’t see any other campsites and there’s little likelihood of people passing by. And it’s right on a bend on the river, Dhungala. Because it’s private property, you know you’re not going to be disturbed. And a real bonus is hot showers and flushing loos. Plus a kitchen washup space outside. There was still a bit of green around, but no lawn like there is at the main campsite area. And there were a lot of grass seeds just getting going, so I had to watch carefully that Mala didn’t chew any or get them stuck in his ears, etc.
We hoped to line the path to our campsite with candles for Diwali (Kate and I bought a stack of tealights), but the wind blew like crazy and extinguished them faster than we could re-light them. So we gave up and sat around the campfire instead. I pitched my instant-up screen room, and we used that on the second evening to avoid a repeat of the mozzie bites we got for Diwali.
A further bonus – Nadine and her dad and a group of his former workmates were camped around in the main section of the resort earlier in the week (their annual cup week camp), and left us the remainder of their firewood. And the Morning Glory crew tractored it around to our campsite – how’s that for service! It was enough for a fire each night, as well as in the mornings.
We got in a decent walk each day – one of the other things I love about Morning Glory are all the walking tracks. And Mala enjoyed a daily ‘swim’ – the sandbar is a perfect spot to get into the water in an otherwise fast-moving river.
This is still one of my favourite places to camp. I’ll be back.
Dey Alexander 
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