Heading North
Trip Start
Mar 09, 2008
1
36
43
Trip End
Dec 10, 2008
Tennant Creek,
Northern Territory,
Australia
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
60km North of Tenent Creek, NT
6:40pm
The sound of a digeree-doo plays in the background as I write this, unknown where it is coming from, just somewhere in the bush! We have travelled for most of the day from a camp site opposite the lonliest police station in the world. There was no town, no crime as far as we could see, just a bunch of elderly campers (and us), a free coffee stand, and a modern looking police station. Australia is odd! ( we were also about 80 kms from the closest gas station and 475 kms away from an actual city.)
There is the digderee-doo again, on and off it plays. The sun has just gone down and it is probably going to be a full moon tonight, it has been treatening itself for the last few nights, everynight is clear. In fact the doesn't ever appear to be a cloud in the sky in the Northern Territory, well not in the winter time at least, where the grass is turning grey from yellow it is so dry here! Not one of the creeks we have passed in the last 3 days (since Normanton) has had water, not even a little bit of water. There are wells for the cattle, but you REALLY need to bring your own water here. We read the the only yearly flow of water north of Alice Springs is Katherine, and we are 2 days from Katherine and god knows how many from Alice Springs!
Did I mention that we haven't had a shower in 5 days! Yes, we are truely living the outback life, and the cheap life, not that there are no showers, its just that we haven't stayed at any caravan parks recently.
We also crossed the time zone today as well, 30 minutes back, which is significant. But then again, do we really care what time it is?
Keir and Kylie
