Odometer: 75,086
Woke up to a clearer day in Alice Springs. We had to buy a UHF this morning and so spent some time around town until the shop opened at 10 am. Bill and I went for a long walk into town along the banks of the currently dry Todd River. We got a good coffee and checked out the Sunday morning market in the Todd Mall. On returning to the caravan park, we packed up and went to buy a UHF. Then it was fuel and a drive up to ANZAC hill where we ate hot donuts from the market and enjoyed the view across Alice. Our impressions of it were really good. The areas we saw were really quite pretty. We then headed out towards the Tanami Track. We fueled up at Tilmouth Well and then shortly after that we hit dirt and so stopped to let the tyres down. The track was in great condition. Some light corrugations that we sailed over at about 85 km/hr.
We pulled into the scrub to make camp at about 415 pm. The flies are extremely annoying and the fly nets came out. Aeroguard did nothing to deter the little beasts. Great camp site with a great fire. We headed to bed pretty early only to be woken at 10 pm by a truck stopping on the road for the night. Turns out it was a refrigerator truck and the compressor kicking in and out during the night was not conducive to a good night’s sleep. 800 km of road, and the truck driver had to stop right near us!
Travelling the Big Island 