Great Central Road

Got up early, and packed away a wet camper, not very nice, but still eager to catch up with the others. On on through to Menzies, road house closed, so on to Laverton. Fuelled up and made a few calls, trying to sort out the 'legal' issues with Dad's estate. (Just what you need when heading outback with little phone, internet coverage). Started out on the Great Central Road, raining, and very grey, but determined to lessen the distance to the group. Refuelled at Tjukayirla ($2.20) and continued. Road was quite good for most of the way. Saw a few camels and dingos and lots of dead cars, we started counting them. Stopped again at Warburton for fuel on the dot of 5 pm, just as they were locking up shop. They refused to open again and sell us some fuel. You'd think at $2.50 a litre they'd be keen to open up again for another 10 minutes, but in the end they did us a favour. Drove on further stopping at a campsite recommended by Glen called Yarla Kutjarra, but as it was already dark we couldn't appreciate the scenery. Heated our our first meal since getting on the road, yummy. There were a few other campers and Malcolm had a chat to a family in a very nice caravan (with heater) and obviously lots of water as he said they had used 140 litres in 2 days – but there were 2 girls in the family. The thought of a heater sounded a bit over the top to me, but we were quite cold and by this stage the camper was very wet. It had leaked quite a bit during the day as we were driving through rain. Very discouraging, but I think I had sussed out how it was getting not only into the bed area (doona soaked by now) but also into the cupboards.