Monday, 30 June 2014

Day 12 Woody's dam to Gemtree Wilderness retreat

Well we woke fairly early but I was again in no hurry no get out of bed as it was my shout for a cuppa 
Ej was out of bed first and no wonder there was ice on his swag we noticed a little later on.

Not a car or truck past by our roadside bush camp just north of woody's dam between 530 pm and 9 am .
Toasted tomato and cheese wraps or sangas for brekky a quick pack up and again we were on the road hoping to reach Gemtree by 3 pm for a rest day.
Fairly uneventful driving on well graded tracks made for good time made on the track this morning and we called past our friends property namesake "ameroo" but the spelling may be off a tad and amazingly we had phone reception for a brief few minutes so a justified Facebook status update was made and some relatives notified of our existence just in case.
I couldn't believe how many general stores and homesteads had fuel and supplies out here , while I knew of a few aboriginal communities I guess I naively thought they came to Alice for supplies or just made do .
We crossed passed with 9 cars just between the Sandover and plenty highways today with a mix of state number plates around the Bundey river crossing which I was tentatively nervous about but with no reason to be as there was a fairly big diversion in place before Dairy downs which took us west a few Kms to a bend in the dry river bed and over the river in 3 easy sandy section with hardly any berries being applied, sorry Willem it appears they dudded us out of a little fun today.

A quick refuel by 2/3 of my spare jerry cans at Atukera bore and a short break about 1230 had me thinking a rolling bikkie and dip lunch in the car and maybe more at Gemtree in hopefully another hour .
A fair bit more traffic once we hit the plenty highway and we only took a slight detour to our digs for the next two nights here with Kate at Gemtree .
Very busy little general store and gem shop today but we were escorted to out powered campsite in due course.
Once setup we made haste for the washing machine (  2 loads !) and a shower each which were heated by a bush donkey setup which was pretty big but well deserved.
A small fire setup by our neighbours from kerang while I made curried snags and rice to warm our bellies on a fresh night again in the centre.
Spent awhile with the neighbours made for a good yarn or two with the kids dobbing me in for lighting our fire the night before with an aerosol can ( bad dad bad).
Well the embers have died down now so it's off to the sack for this black duck.
 

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