Tuesday, 28th July 2020
We clicked some more pics of bloody great boulders balancing precariously on other bloody great boulders on the way out of the Devils Marbles this morning.
Not the last to leave. Two left. Had to make our final payment for last night of $6.60.
Then whoosh up the Stuart highway a whole 110km to Tennant Creek.
Never ceases to amaze me how many derelict cars dumped on the sides of the road way back from S.A. This blurred shot looks like someone has pulled up to check it out, but it’s way past retrieving.
Another one. This one looks a bit rolled.
We gassed up at the BP and immediately called a Caravan Park adjacent.
We had not had phone or internet for quite a while and there was money to be transferred to cards and things to be taken care of, like this blog for example. From time to time I wonder just how many people actually look at it. I know Anne rarely bothers because she’s here first hand. I know niece Naomi and sister Jan do. Chris D, Rick M and a few others have had a look. It’s more my own record of our travels, but hope a few others get some amusement out of it.
So we basically stationed ourselves in the van and caught up on, banking, and posting items as well as cleaning and cloths washing for a departure tomorrow.
We will have a drive around before we go but everything seems down the main street.
My biggest memory of Tennant Creek was last visit about March 1996. I had successfully reversed our little pop top van into a tree in Camooweal in Queensland about 12 km from the NT border. The van wasn’t damaged. The air-cond I had installed in the back window took the shock. So we sweat like the proverbial than night and highballed it to Tennant Creek where a workshop allowed me to use their facilities to pull the air-cond out and get it fixed. It was a job and a half. I installed it knowing it would never have to be pulled out. (?)
The other memory is us returning to the car (Hilux dual cab 4WD diesel) in the main street after some shopping, to discover that someone had decided they needed one of the front indicator lights more than we did.
Anyway, we kicked back and catch up today then have a good night doing nothing.
Short stop. Off tomorrow.
Cheers.