Way out West 2025. 2nd of August.  Day sixteen.

Neale Breakaways camp to Crossroads Camp in amongst some trees. 154 kms down the track.

Awoke for sunrise this am. Steve and I captured some of the morning colours on the breakaways.

Had time for a bit of a walk around the wall behind camp this morning. So many colours and textures in the rocks. Salty, chalky, reds, burgundies, white, cloudy and clear water, camel bones, and the odd hardy shrub and tree.

Our start was slightly delayed by Mary stepping INTO a soft grey muddy patch and djirtyi g

A brief stop before we turned back on to the Connie Sue to attend another repair to Stef‘s compressor issue. Thankfully a couple of compressor later and he’s car has risen to a higher height.

More flowering gums.

Changing scenery today, with more wooded areas either side of the road.

Lunch stop at the power station – some wag has put a power point on the tree. The funny is they ita marked with a power point symbol on the HEMA maps.

It’s a windy one today, and almost a tail wind so it’s helping the fuel economy.

Sturt Desert Pea spotted by Phil just outside the lunch stop, so three of us reversed for a look. Astoundingly Steve’s first wild Desert Pea.

Then we were off again to find yet more corrugations. Then more Sturt Desert Peas and numerous other flowering shrubs and wildflowers.

We turned right at a water tank with some wrecks. There was a caravan of camels to take a pic of.

Then we were on an almost treeless plain. Strangely we had only seen one wreck since Warburton on the CSH. Now we’ve seen several since turning right.

We pulled up for a camp early about 2:35. Then took 10mins to select an actual site with cars going in all directions. The early stop is in order to have a wooded area and time to cook the second roast of the trip.

Also time for some phaffing. I made a thing to hold the UHT milk in the fridge, as for some reason this trip they are failing and going soggy around the base. Also got the awning out to dry and had a good look under the car for some rattles.

At 5:00 we are sitting around a warm fire listening to the roast cooking in the camp oven and catching up on the blog and world news.

There is rain forecast for tomorrow, which could result in closed roads, so we have proposed an early start to try and make it to Rawlinna before the roads close.