Our Trip

Day Three

Ok, so where were we up to?

Oh, yes, on the last post we ended up in Halls Creek.

Now, the Canning Stock Route technically

starts at Halls Creek although the actual 'track' begins

at Bililuna, a small aboriginal community,

172km south via the Tanami Highway. 

Now, originally, I said I would give you some

info on the history of the stock route etc,

but, you have Google, so knock yourself out,

I am too busy right now to write a history lesson! 

Well, anyway, after tanking up on coffee (one

last time), we headed off to finally get off the bitumen 

and onto our 'real' adventure. 

After travelling on the Tanami Road for a while,

our first stop was Wolfe Creek Crater. 

It was pretty impressive and we were glad

to get out of the car after 23 km of corrugates

(visions of what was to come). 

Around lunch time we arrived at Bililuna community,

the start of the Canning Stock Route, and 

the start of hundreds of kilometres of corrugates!

After travelling a very short distance on the very 

bumpy road, the anti sway bar on the cruiser became

detached (sheered off really), so we pulled that off

and carried on our way. The first of many things to rattle

loose or fall off. 

We ended up setting up camp early at 

a beautiful lagoon called Lake Stretch. 

Being on Western Australian time now,

we hadn't really adjusted our body clocks so

we ate tea at 4pm! We were crazy mixed up. 

Here's a couple pics of the lagoon and 

also the lagoon and campsite 

through the lensball. 

It was very peaceful and relaxing down by the lagoon 

and it gave us time to plan our next days' trek. 

(Each night Dave and Kon would work out how

far we would 'try' to make it the next day. 

Of course I say 'try', as very often, things changed

and plans were abandoned. But that's the fun of 

adventuring into the great unknown. 

I enjoyed walking along the lagoon,

watching the brolgas and cockatoos

and photographing the reflections in the water. 

We finally got to have our first campfire 

and enjoyed our billy tea and damper. 

Once it got dark enough, I was able to sit

down by the lagoon and try and capture the 

Milky Way in all it's glory. Ahhhh. 

Wow! God really is a master artist.

Psalm 19:1

The heavens declare the glory of God;

 and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

Another day ended,

and a new one just over the horizon.

To be continued...…………