Another new road for us; in fact, all of them from now on until we get to Kalgoorlie will be new roads, only another 3 200 +- km to go!
We wanted to get an early start this morning to be guaranteed a spot at Timber Creek as they don't take bookings. So, with breakfast made last night (peanut butter and honey sandwiches) and brews to go made fresh, we were on the road a little before 7 am. We normally try and avoid getting out too early because of the wildlife. A very small, lucky kangaroo just mananged to miss our left-front bumber after scooting across the road from right to left; they really are quite silly animals.
We made one stop, for mornos, at a roadside pullover that had six rubbish bins, none of which could be used by some thoughtless individual/s, for reasons unknown. Greg helped the poor things out while waiting for his brew.
Made it to Timber Creek a little after 10:30 am, filled up with fuel and checked in to the van park behind the servo - $20 for an unpowered plot. We picked a spot next to the pool and at the time of writing (7:15 pm) are still the only ones in the unpowered part; meanwhile all the 28 powered sites are choccas. Reason for unpowered is we don't think we'll need power as we will hopefully not require the use of the aircon; getting down to about 16 degC tonight, so should be quite pleasant. And, we have our 12v fans for use during the day. As we stayed connected to the tug, easy to pull out in the morning too.
After lunch and a rest, we ventured out onto the Timber Creek Heritage Walk along the banks of, yes you guessed it, Timber Creek. At the end of the Walk is the Police Museum which was nothing to write home about. We always find it funny when the people running these little museums want to tell you their favourite yarns while you're trying very hard to look through the museum. There are a number of Boab trees along the walk with lots of fruit on the ground. Greg broke a few open and we had a taste and they are not nearly as nice the ones in Zim. Back to the van park for an ice cream each (Wendy had a banana paddlepop, something she has not had for a very long time). Blog writing and book reading followed up until dinner time.
Off to the Timber Creek Hotel about 200m from where we are camped. The meals, although a tad more expensive, were absolutely fantastic - well done Timber Creek Hotel. Greg only made it half way through his chicken in PJs; he has dinner for tomorrow night too. We took the long way home.
We will be off-line tomorrow, see you at Kununurra.
Early morning on the road - lovely time to be out, just before sunrise
Scenery on today's drive
On one side of the road there were these rocky cliffs .....
On the other side, greenery
Mornos stop
Murals at the WIRIB Tourism Park store
Boab tree, where Wendy tried the fruit of the tree but it was not quite the same as that in Zimbabwe; a little more bitter
Wendy displaying the fruit inside the shell
Quite a large Boab tree
Police Museum
The Great Wall has also been built here in outback NT and it goes for many km
Street art in Timber Creek - Boab trees
The store/supermarket we are camped behind
Our camp for the night, comes with private swimming pool!
Always good to catch up on your travels. Think about you every day too.
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting drive - Katherine to Timber Creek.Not as flat as some areas. We never get to see many cars on the roads although you tell us it is so busy. Is this just because you travel earlier than the mormal mob?? ( that is, of caravaners not Kangaroos!!). Keep having fun. Love you, Mum and Dad