Simply Marbellous

Yes, marbellous and not marvellous. We took the Stuart and Barkley Hwys heading to Mt Isa via Camooweal from Alice Springs yesterday and came across the awesome Devils Marbles. What a treat they were. Absolutely amazing and I have no idea how those massive boulders are balanced one on top of the other – literally looking like marbles.

 

 

 

We also came across Wycliffe Well – a town that claims to be the “UFO Centre of Australia”. Hmmm. Anyways, a very weird place. Didn’t stop very long because as usual, the “town” was just an overpriced fuel station and caravan park (and in this instance a UFO/alien museum of sorts). I did take a picture of Graeme with some of the locals…

 

 

 

 

 

We drove through a storm yesterday which, due to the very flat land, we could see tens of kilometres away. There was impressive thunder and lightening and finally the rain. All of which we were only involved in for less than a few minutes, but it did provide us with some entertainment on an otherwise fairly boring drive. In the picture of the storm when it was ahead of us in the distance, you can see that it was literally split into two. One side of it on the left of the road, and the other on the right. Stunning.

 

 

We got to west of Camooweal and camped out for the night in a beautiful spot. Here’s a picture of the amazing sunset we were treated to whilst eating our dinner of beef rogan josh with rice.

Unfortunately, the temperature didn’t drop very much overnight and with no breeze to speak of it was sweltering hot – above 30 degrees in the car. After a little while of trying desperately to get to sleep, we realised that it was absolutely futile and decided to drive a little way down the highway with the air con running at full blast until the temperature in the car dropped. We did manage to get a few hours sleep and were up again at dawn and set off straight away, again with the air con at full blast, until we reached another rest stop to have some breakkie.

It’s great to be heading east again!

Till next time, Cassie

PS: My experiences with outback toilets reached a new low today. I reckon a wasp nest, yes very much filled with live wasps, clinging to the underside of the cistern was the worst experience to date. Made worse still by the fact that I was unaware of it at first wondering where on earth that lone wasp had come from. I ended up running out of there looking as if someone had set my butt on fire!