15.7.18 SC #5 (near a salt pan) to SC #6 pudding camp near Big Red XX

Another cool night with water and even the olive oil in cars freezing. (Still warm with the hot water bottle)

Decision made last night that tonight will be our second pudding night. So wherever we camp will be pudding camp. 

Things are greener in the QLD Desert.
Early lunch stop (11.30 SA/NT time, 12.00 QLD time) 

21.7.18 Bamawm Extension to Moe.

After a warm sleep with electric blanket and heater in Dad’s Caravan. I woke up to a heavy frost and frozen windscreen. Packed up, fuelled up with my jerry can then caught the cat and said goodbye to the family and on the road about 10.20. 

Puss in boots playing a part in frozen.

Frozen windscreen

A little clearer to see with.
Off through Rochester where they have joined the ranks of painted silos, man are they good. 

A possum and a kingfisher.

They are so well done.
With fuel in the tank it was straight through Melbourne to Moe (I did a quick stop at Snowgum sale in Oakleigh East. 

Aero settled pretty well in his cage.

Home about 2.40pm
Arrived home at 2.40, 7368.7kms later. Got half unpacked and put away, a couple of loads of washing on then out to tea for Pete Bath’s Birthday. 

Now well and truly ready for sleep in my own bed. 

PS. 23 July. Still cleaning up. 

The billy has even had a scrub.

19.7.18 Camp near Lake Frome to Gol Gol -Rivergardens Holiday Park

We had agreed to an early start today as we needed to get a lot of kms done - over 700 to get to Mildura. 

We still had to send our way out to Tea tree Rd to Yunta. Once we hit the road we had just over 200kms to Yunta and fuel - only challenge was my fuel range at that stage was 130kms. We had done some calculations last night around an excellent camp fire and reckoned I could do it. 

This morning we woke early with the potential for our best sunrise yet. A quick pack up before breaky, which was interrupted by needing to get the tripod out for the sunrise. 

It coloured up nicely and there were some good clouds too.







This is our last ‘camp’. We are packed ready, the only evidence of our camp is some firewood ready for the next lot.




We were pulling out at 7.35. A good run to our track out. 

Through a few creeks and river crossings. 

The sun shining on the nearby ranges looked awesome- very hard to get a picture to capture it. We had Lake Frome to our left and the Gammon and Fkinders Ranges to our right.