Wednesday, Apr 01, 2009 at 16:07
Hi Madcow
We had three overnight stops.
We were heading from
Halls Creek to
Alice Springs and were going to stop at Wolfe Creek, but as it was only lunch time, we, moved on. We watched for gravel ridges, and found a good one (old gravel dump),
well off the road about 33 kms
Halls Creek side of the Balgo turnoff. Evidence of old
camp fires. We had a wonderful peaceful night after a colourful sunset (current rig
pic).
Next night we stopped at a
well used
rest area near
the Granites mine. Not that quiet as a bit close to the road, and the security man from the
mine drive through during the night 'checking for dingoes'. He usually finds someone camped there. He called around next morning too to
check that we were OK as we were late leaving - during a bit of r&m. Nice guy.
Third night we went far enough past Yuendumo where a track turned off at a station
dam. The track went over the
hill to a wide open area from a very old gravel dump - BUT as there was a dead red car, numerous cans, old steak bones and evidence of primitive barbecue, we thought it must be the local drinking spot just outside of the prohibited zone. Nothing was really recent, so we stayed - we always stay hitched, so moving out quickly wouldn't be a problem. A little later a very old Landrover drive further along the track and stopped at a tree. Our neighbours were quiet all night, and left about half an hour before us in the morning.
Some way down the road, there was the same Landrover broken down. It was a pretty cold morning. Chairs and
camp cooker out, they had hot coffee while they tried to ascertain the mechanical problem. It turned out it was a bush lover from
Melbourne, taking his brother from NZ (and UK born ) around. They really laughed when we said we'd thought they were from Yuendumo! Two other travellers also stopped, and we all stayed until the Landrover got going again.
We had a problem with our water tanks when we got to Tilmouth Wells, and the same people we had helped (
well my husband had helped) came in and helped us out. Their Landrover was still playing up and they could only travel slowly, so it took us the rest of the day following them to make sure they made it to Alice.
Motherhen
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