A late start this morning for some reason, perhaps a restless hot night (or just getting used to this easy life style).  It was so hot last night we spent most of the night without the cover, not at all like Canberra at the moment.

One interesting observation is that the vast majority of traffic on the road is grey nomads.  Just outside of Tennant Creek we visited the Old Telegraph Station, Ron enjoyed that (he may have left work for 3 months but telecommunication hasn’t left him). We refuelled at Tennant Creek BP & bought some lunch at an uninspiring transit stop.  It must have been payday for our indigenous friends as Tennant Creek was swarming with people shopping & socialising.  It was sad to see so many young teenagers roaming around instead of being in school.

An aboriginal family (baby and 3 more children) stood next to a broken down car or it ran out of petrol about 20 km from Tennant Creek, Ron immediately stopped to help them, the man came across the road and all he wanted was water, we always have a few bottles in the car so that was easy.

Our next stop was the Devil’s Marbles, it is unbelievable there is nothing and suddenly huge rocks appear.   Very interesting granite rock formations just off the highway, it’s amazing the balancing of these huge rocks & the way they have weathered.  It was a pleasant 33C while we were strolling amongst the rocks and having some fun (I was a bit worried about Ron though) we met a skinny dingo that was looking for a feed (didn’t get any from us).  Our next brief stop was Whycliffe Springs (it is famous for Alien sightings) where I filled our petrol container for the generator as I had forgotten in Tennant Creek (he just wanted to stop to see the Aliens).  A bit further on we pulled into Taylor’s Creek rest area after 355km for the day, some more fruit cake, a chat to our new neighbours from Tasmania & another glorious sunset.