41 Mile Bore.

Monday 14th July.

Mainly due to our next door neighbours in a rented "wiz bang" who were intent on waking the whole area we were awake and up by seven o'clock. With nothing to pack up we were on the road ourselves by 7:30am. We travelled for a couple of hundred kilometres before pulling into a great roadside rest area called Attack Creek or Stuart Memorial on some maps, for another cuppa and a short driving break. This rest area is one that we had passed on the way north without taking a great deal of notice of. However after stopping there this morning and checking the very large site out it is an area to keep in mind for the future should we venture up this way again.

As we need to replenish fresh fruit and vegetables we continued on past Three Ways a further 25 km's to Tennant Creek where there is a large supermarket. Actually we did stop briefly at Three Ways roadhouse to check their diesel prices. $1.90 per litre so we only bought a bucket of hot chips. Our records indicated that diesel was around 10 cents per litre cheaper in Tennant Creek and as we needed to ensure we had plenty to bypass the Barkly Homestead midway across the Barkly Highway it made sense to buy at Tennant Creek as we were there for essential food items.

We also visited the T.C. dump point to empty the toilet cartridge and to fill an empty LPG gas bottle at the hardware shop. 

Tennant Creek is an interesting place, the vast majority of the residents are of the indigenous type,

In fact the people you see on the streets are ninety nine percent indigenous. The only white folk appear to own or work in the shops and service stations.

We then backtracked to Three Ways, making a right turn onto the Barkly Highway and now heading east towards Queensland, some 420 km's away.

Overnight stop for tonight is "41 Mile Bore", about 70 km's from Three Ways.

This is another very large area carved out of the bush with little tracks leading to dozens of nice secluded camping spots, but all within 200 metres of the highway. Arrived here around 2:00pm.

Hopefully the sky will be cloudless tonight giving us a magnificent view of the stars. It has been rather cloudy throughout the day and not as warm as we have become accustomed to consequently we plan to have a fire. Today's travel was 373 km's.