The track was sandy and the wind was blowing, so it was slow going for the camels today. Still they made nearly nine ks. Not bad as they will do up to fifteen on a good day. Just our speed, you can really get a feel for the country and notice a lot more than if you race through.

Made camp at an old stone built water tank beside the track. We had come to a gate earlier that had a sign which read, no access trespassers prosecuted, but carried on through, as it was too far to go back. After we made camp a 4wd came along, it was the manager of the property we were on. He was very friendly and didn’t mind that we were traveling through.

 Had a good yarn and he told us of the government plans of building a nuclear waste dump on land just before his land for French nuclear waste.  All Australians should protest and stop this.

 

He also told us it was going to rain tomorrow starting at 4am. Cooked a meal and went to bed as usual, woke to the patter of rain and looked at the clock and sure enough it was 4am. Joked about it amongst ourselves all day.

The rain, or showers lasted all next day which made the track too boggy to travel on so we stayed in camp and reorganized our gear and had a tidy up.

 Cooked up some pancakes with Tassie berries and cream, doing it tough.

 

A mob of emus visited the camp, came really close and checked us out.

 

The duck climbed a sand dune to survey the road ahead. Ended up staying another three days waiting for the road to dry out.