Left early today and headed up to Halls Creek. Saw Wedge tailed eagles on the roadside, lots of lovely flowers, ant hills [8’ – 10’ high], and piles of talcum dust. The road is really in good shape for a track, we had to slow our pace down due to the dust.
Halls Creek is quite a nice little town,we did a little bit of food
shopping and actually found a bakery with quite good coffee. Poor Peter (the guy with the shredded tyre yesterday), pulled up to get petrol only to find that he had a flat tyre absolutely wrecked. We had to find somewhere to buy 2 new tyres. The wonderful Tony stayed with him and they were then 2 hours behind us. They made up time and arrived only about 20 mins after us.
This road (Duncan Highway – dirt road) went through some wonderful country. This road was far more interesting than the Tanami which was so flat. We have hills, termite mounds, small water crossings, brahma cattle, (so pretty), wedge tailed eagles and…..a couple of hitch hikers in the middle of nowhere. They were hopeful weren’t they? They looked tired and hot, but of course we are laden to the hilt and have no room.
Our fuse is now fixed thanks to the wonderful Peter, so we can recharge our phones and other stuff.
Our party is split tonight, Some in a paddock, Tony, Jenny, Dean, Michael and me are by a river (this spot was discovered by Dean) – with freshwater crocodiles. The men went swimming and pronounced the water wonderful.
Greg saw about 30 crocodiles (fresh water – we believe they are not so very dangerous) on the other side and downriver a little. Made no difference to our intrepid males. We saw about 4 coming in our direction, but they only came so far – not really near us.
Karen, Dean was perfectly safe (Jen says so)……..you should have seen him climb up the tree on the riverbank.
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