Today’s theme was apparently golden. The spinifex had this lovely golden colour through most of the areas we traveled.
Golden.
Like all the dunes we cross, the environment changes over each hump. One such area treated us with fields of yellow flowers, with no spinifex at all. It was a sight to see.
Unfortunately throughout the day I had a headache, but disappeared in the afternoon.
I think I was too entrenched in it’s beauty and wanting to see how long it lasted that I forgot to get some pictures.
We had great fun driving the geological survey track that featured a straight road. Due to the straightness of the track it meant traveling directly over many dunes without zigzagging like the rest of the track. I had been waiting for this section for days and it was an amazing experience.
Camp finally ended up in Gravity Lakes, which is a yet another stunning dry lake bed.
Well 38 has now become my favorite Well. A rocky spring full of trees and life which became a lovely place for an early lunch. Unfortunately it’s probably a bit too rocky for us to camp at (and a bit too early in the day).
It dawned on us that as we were the last people to fill up at Kunawarritji that anyone heading north bound would be at least 1 and half days behind us.
Rock Art cave was an adorable little cubby hole to climb in.
Rock art cave
I was surprised to see many more of those purple flowers today, it really lit up the environment against the spinifex.
A fairly freshly abandoned ute that had the car seat removed from it.
We are staying the night at Well 41. The water we drew from the well was very orange. We’ll get water at the next well, we aren’t short on water.
Well 41 water. We can do better elsewhere
Since I don’t get to fly the drone often in Melbourne and we still had some daylight left today I tried some of its more advanced features, and I’m glad I did as I found that there’s actually a toilet at this stop, something we didn’t expect or plan on.
Feels like we are coming to the end of the CSR portion of this journey.
Fuel and supplies obtained from Kunawarritji but most importantly a nice hot shower. We’ve been having showers while camping but that’s more of a utility than something relaxing. We stayed around over lunch while our washing dried then heading off to Kilkil (Well 36). Felt pretty exhausted by the end of the day.
Ended up a fairly long day. Setting up in the dark
So far the native wells have been more interesting to me. There’s a surprising amount of water out here, if it know where it is. (Hi, future xss here, for some dumb reason I forgot to take pictures of any of the native wells. The native wells varied from being a depression in the ground, to natural rock formations providing a well.)
Droppy cooked and tried some Kangaroo tail but I wasn’t feeling all that adventurous today.
I intended to start formatting and writing up the blog posts to go along with this journal but got distracted doing something. Such is holiday life.
