29 June 2016 – 176 718
Stuart Highway
Packed up the van and headed to Lake Mary Ann
for showers – there were two taps and hence we were hopeful of hot showers, it
was better described as one tap providing water that was less cold than the
other. We were all definitely awake
after our showers. It was a lovely spot
by the water and we saw Sturt's Desert Pea growing – the first time I have
seen these. Tennant Creek was a fairly
small town, stopped off to get fuel and bread and then headed south. We detoured slightly off the highway to
Devils Marbles (Karlu Karlu) and drove through – these are beautiful and we
will aim to camp here on our way north to Darwin so that we can see them at
sunrise and sunset. We camped for the night at Tropic of Capricorn Rest Area
about 30km north of Alice Springs.
Tomorrow we will headed into Alice Springs for a day or two before going
out onto the Red Centre Way. They have a special satellite dish that has a spot
to put your mobile phone, to boost the signal enough to make emergency
calls. They have signs for these
periodically along the Stuart Highway.
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