Morning had broken but we wouldn't see sunlight on our camp for awhile yet but we got up and had brekky quickly then took off on our gorge walk chasing the sunlight in the far reaches inside .
Petroglyphs were abundant in this gorge where only initiated men were allowed to walk in past the waterhole , the colours were coming out in the rock as the sun changed its angle over the tight gorge
Fire had damaged a lot of the area here unfortunately and re growth in arid regions is very slow .
From there we chatted with a Gold Coast couple heading back from Broome who had bad timing as happens when you wish to pack up promptly lol all was good we were just keen to go .
As we headed back through the Ross river and onto the main track back we took a walk through Jessie's gap another little gem of a spot in the Alice region also spotted with paintings of emu stripes and a few petroglyphs as well along the sandy river bed .
Back on the way into town we past some beautiful coloured stones ridge lines similar to rainbow valley on the other side of the range which we would see in the afternoon .
In town one last top up of fuel as sand driving was taking its toll on the economy of the fully laden car and camper.
A quick look over the town from Anzac hill was well worth the detour after picking up yet another two latches to replace the broken arb fridge ones that were were broken or cracked ready to break .
Of course Arb lalice springs had never heard of this but had the part conveniently ordered in for me from a few days before when we were in there.
So they don't know of any issues with them but they do have a part number and they are for sale ?
The road out past Santa Teresa aboriginal community was quite good but they mind boggles at the sea of green vb cans along the way and at the cattle grid on the way out a large pile of cans just outside the prescribed area.
The little communities tip had more cars than any wreckers I have ever seen and I can't help but wonder how much money they could make if a mobile car metal crusher stayed there to help clean them up ?
I aired down a bit more to accomodate the sandy roads ahead and was a bit tired so looked for camps ahead but owing to aboriginal land and weed protected areas that allowed no roadside stops we camped some 70 Kms before the old Andado homestead at a bush camp marked on the Binns track map we had been using.
We were lucky as there was a fireplace with wood already to use which was a blessing but it wasn't as cold or windy as the nights prior to this .
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