Day 167

13 July 2013

Up early and headed back along the 56km dirt road to the highway. I was starting to feel very sick on this dirt road, makes your tummy churn all the winds, or maybe it was Joel's driving! Haha.

Back to Kununurra and we had a few chores to do...shopping at Coles, fuel up at $1.62 per litre! So good! And car wash...we were under the impression that there was a self serve car wash at Kununurra but turns out after 20mins of following the GPS in circles there wasn't one! But we luckily came across a charity car wash at a local supermarket and man did we feel bad driving our red dirt filled truck into the washing bays! Well not that bad....haha....$20 later and she was shining like we haven't seen in a while! Worth it just so we didn't have to do it, pity when you open the doors dust is everywhere inside, looks like a bomb inside but sparkling on outside.

While we were waiting for car to be washed we headed to a cafe for some lunch. I didn't realise it was an Asian cafe, normally wouldn't eat Asian for lunch but it was so good! Honey chicken, fried rice and spring rolls, was beautiful, haven't had good chinese like that for a long time!! Highly recommend it, just next to the visitor centre in Kununurra!

Back to pick up shutz, and he was fine and in one piece. Hooked him up and we are now grey nomads again with our van in tow. We are heading to somewhere over the border today, Timber Creek area, some where like that.

Cross the NT border, no checks for fruit and vegies etc only if you are going into WA so drove straight through. Was only a sign marking the border so stopped for a photo and first thing we notice about NT is max speed limit on highway is 130! Pity shutz doesn't want to go 130 and the fuel you must burn going 130, but I tell you some people are absolutely flying past you, it's crazy!

Pretty flat land again, big ranges in the backdrop which are pretty, similar to Kimberley's landscape. Nothing around though, lots of vans going towards WA border but not much to see. Fueled up at timber creek, had a look at the caravan park but decided to keep going to a bush camp we found in camps 6 book. Pulled into Big Horse campground and it was absolutely packed! Not a free spot in sight so we were forced to keep going. There wasn't much more in the camp 6 book for another 160km and it was about to get dark so we couldn't keep driving. We noticed a day stop with a caravan setup for the night so we pulled to the side and discussed whether we should pull in to and stay the night....just as we were making a decision, we saw Roos jumping across the road and decided that was a sign that we need to stop and pull up stumps for the night. While you are probably not meant to camp here, there was no signs saying you couldn't so we pulled up and started sorting the van and the car out again! We seriously have so much shit! Ridiculous!

A troopy pulled up just after dark too so we had created a whole new campsite and best of all it was free. Along this road there are so many spots you can just pull up, there is no one out here so unlikely you will get pulled up on staying somewhere you shouldn't.

Dinner, stuffed, bedtime and we are done until tomorrow.

Carly & Joel

 

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