As we didn’t want to listen to Macca with Australia All Over, I stacked up the CD player and we sang along to hits of the 80s, Grease and the movie soundtrack from “What Women Want”. A bit of car dancing (the top half of my body dances and I clap and sing) got the blood moving even though Bobby gets a bit concerned about the oncoming cars staring at me. Who cares!!! He should be used to me doing that by now. And I stayed awake; it’s a bit hard to nod off when there’s good music playing. I was going to rip some CDs to my MP3 player but I didn’t get to it before we left – making jewellery is more fun.
Lunch stop was at Erldunda. Some bright spark created much amusement for new travellers with an amusing sign; NO FISHING stuck in the left-over muddy waters outside the service station.
Making use of the amenities wherever we stop, I headed off to the toilets. Casually looking around at the “ceiling”, I immediately thought of Georgina (a friend who suffers from arachnophobia). She would have been hyperventilating at the sight of 2 of the biggest spiders I have ever seen. Luckily, spiders at a distance don’t bother me much. I returned with the camera so that I could share a digital spider with George.
Wedge-tailed eagles are very impressive with their size, confidence and arrogant looks. We saw one today that had all of these traits; as it picked through something dead on the side of the road, it didn’t even flutter a feather as we drove past. It just gave us a glance, stood its ground and went on with its meal.
The landscape stays the same for many kilometres then it changes from clumpy, low, green-grey foliage to scraggly trees that aren’t very tall then back again to the low bushes. There’s evidence of water in many of the creeks; some still have several pools and others have dark, damp, muddy patches. I guess by the time we do the return trip many of them will be dried out with cracks appearing. To the side of the road in a few areas, there was a lot of water that hadn’t drained away.
Phone coverage was restored not too far out of Alice Springs and Robert suggested I ring CP to book a site. Lucky we did that as we got the last available site. The Stuart CP is very nice. Many tall, shady trees are scattered throughout the park and provide shelter and shade. Sites are quite big as well. Amenities are spotless. Big tick for this one.
Robert decided to give the Prado a clean so I tidied up the inside whilst listening to Port play West Coast. Of course, Robert wasn’t happy with the first part of the game and didn’t really bother to listen but he was a bit happier after returning from a shower to hear that they were only 14 points behind. Sadly, the margin grew but it must have been a good game for a while. It sounded as though Port were having a go. Before the game, I sent a text to a Carlton supporter saying that the weather here was lovely (20 degrees) and maybe Port would win. His response was for us to enjoy the weather and not ask for divine intervention!
Our travel plans have changed after Robert had a chat with one of the permanent residents here. We were going to head for Tenant Creek but have decided to go to Wycliffe Wells. Tenant Creek is not a comfortable place to stay with looting being one problem. Wycliffe Wells reminds me of the police series on ABC1 “Wycliffe”. I enjoyed that program – most of the English dramas and comedies are well done.
After persisting for some time with logging on to Gmail and Face Book and Blog, we gave up. I took Robert’s advice and did these entries in Word. Might read for a while now – I started a novel before we left and it’s the only paperback I brought with me. EBook is next and with so many to choose from, I’ll be very happy.
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