We left Tilmouth and headed for Yuendemu. Yuendemu community was bigger than we expected and we had full Telstra service for 10km either side of town . The general store stocked everything from car batteries to broccoli . The school was painted in beautiful bright colours and Rubes asked why everyone was wearing bare feet ??
The tanami road. ( rather than track) as it is now known was graded and we could drive approx 90km / hr. Rabbit Flat Roadhouse was closed so we were going to camp off the road about 12 km south but that dirt road turned into a wash out that was impassable. It was nearing happy hour and we passed another dirt track (59km past the old Rabbit flat roadhouse)which led us to a beautiful clearing that we shared with 2 other campers, surrounded by Acacias, sturt desert pea and Grevilleas. 500 m off the,emTanami and about 12km south of Tanami mine. Beautiful sunset and under a million clear stars !
Grevillea wickhamii was so plentiful
So far the Tanami road conditions have been great. The road train drivers have been very courteous and slowing down and provided us with some good info on the road ahead on the UHF.
A small road train but you can see their dust cloud approaching for kilometres before you even sight the truck.
The camp we found 500m off a dirt track from the Tanami. True bush free camp. We have logged the coordinates on Wiki camps. We shared this camp with 2 others, 1 of which was towing an Ultimate camper as well.
It was way too hot for a fire but it's just such a communal thing and the girls got to toast the marshmallows. It would only get cold at about 4am.
The Tanami was so lush and green and the scenery changed all the time. From plains of spinifex grasses to rocky granite boulders, from mountain ranges to large sections of thick woodland.Ptilotus, sturt desert peas and Grevilleas all along the side of the road. Beautiful.
Huge expanses of termite nests as far as the eye could see. Olive asked " why did all those people have to die?". I guess to a 4yr old they do look like grave headstones.
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