Collis was up early today as he is worried that some riders may be a bit disgruntled with the changes made to the itinerary. So he sat in the car writing a little explanation for his reasons for the changes and then read it to them at breakfast this morning. Everyone reassured him that all was fine and he needs not to be so sensitive to questioning.
10 km ride to Devil’s Marbles this morning and I’m quite excited as I think they should all be impressed. This is one of my favourite places within Australia. All seemed impressed but difficult to tell with Lew who seems to have seen it all before. Group photos taken here on the rocks.
Lunch was on the side of the road under a beautiful white gum tree overseen by large numerous termite mounds and medium sized orb spiders. Wild flowers still abundant and changing types each day.
We saw the largest bloated cow (or could have been a bull, but no-one checked) ever today. So big that if a bird of prey decides to peck at it they will get the biggest fright and probably blown to smithereens. Lew says that this wouldn’t happen because it would get eaten from the inside out by a goanna first. The goanna will apparently enter through it’s rear end- not sure how a bird would know to wait for this. Anyway this was discussed over lunch.
We were in at Tennant Creek soon after 1 pm. I did the food shopping straight away while Collis took the bike rack to the welders. We are staying at the Outback Caravan Park which is a bit run down since our last visit. They had reserved us some green grass for camping but the nearest toilet block was under renovations and the girls showers were cold, a bit of a walk to the other block.
I cooked up the meat sauce for the next bush camp which will be lasagna (first attempt in the dutch oven). I’m a bit weary tonight after Collis’ early start.
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