Hi Everyone,

Sorry you’ve had a flurry of posts recently, unfortunately we have not had a decent internet connection until we arrived in Alice.

Map update https://1drv.ms/i/s!AksnrQT2cvoGxTsR_GB7zh76DN8U  As you can see from the map we are about half way across the country and have covered 2,260ks.

We have been quite busy, doing maintenance on the van and the Troopy, plus shopping for the next ten days out in the bush, refuelling with both diesel and wine and generally getting ready for the next part of the trip.    Since we left home we have averaged 19.1 litres of diesel per 100 ks and 34 millilitres of wine per 100 ks!    Pat has been busy cooking up meals for the freezer, to make life easier for her on the road.

Although we have been into Alice for most of the above we have been here before and have not done too much sightseeing, hence the shortage of photos.

This approach to Alice, from the south, passes through Heavitree Gap, first surveyed by Mills as a way through the ranges when he was working for Overland Telegraph in the late 1860s.    The road, the famous Todd River and the railway all utilise this relatively narrow gap.

We have been joined by Graeme and Jan, who we have met before at the mini-musters, they are from WA and have been up north for a few months and are going to the Big Muster in Echuca 23with Brad and Denise but we are all travelling together for the next couple of weeks.

Tomorrow we head east and out into the bush again on a route none of us has travelled before so it is quite exciting.

It’s not clear when we will have internet again so there might be another ‘flurry’!