Today we spent all day on the Tanami.
It was a late start ( after 11) due to getting up a bit later and some repairs required for Al and Zita. We had company for a while before we left-travellers going the other way whose brains we picked. Their bike carrier needed fixing and Craig helped here.
Sounds like the road to Mitchell falls will be a real challenge.
We stopped not long after we started ( Renihan’s bore) at 1220 for lunch. The tiny geckos here were lovely ,and also an unusual grevillea
We stopped again for a cuppa at 4 pm before finally doing the last leg.
Wiki camps showed a camp with a view but , although it is a scenic enough track intersection we have stopped at, you could hardly call it a camp with a view.
We have been impressed by the beauty of the Tanami today. Corrugated dark red roads with lush vegetation on either side and millions of termite mounds added in. Hardly a desert.
We made camp at 5:30pm
- 347 km today
- Dirt except for a brief bitumen section ( no idea why)
The verse today was written this morning after watching our chairs in the breeze.
Synchronised falling (for chairs)
All the modern chairs are doing it
It’s really quite a craze
You can see it happening everywhere
On very windy days
They do it quite instinctively
So natural at the art
It must be something buried
Deep in every chair heart
It really is spectacular
To witness in the raw
There’s really truly nothing
Like it that I’ve seen before
A stiff breeze comes a calling
To the place where chairs are found
And the chairs in perfect unison
Go falling to the ground
As if on-cue they take a dive
It’s graceful to behold
I think the dive I saw this morning
Really should win Gold.
Luvapuzzle 