We had an early start this morning, but got to enjoy some Major Mitchell cockatoos in the nearby trees at the campground. They are pink and white and have a gentle call alike the red black cockatoos. We headed back onto the Stuart Highway and drove past Karla Karla (Devils marbles) and were able to see how far the rock formations are spread out, as we were looking at them from a distance rather than close up like we had the first time. We stopped just short of Tennant Creek for a lunch break, and turned onto the Barkly Highway just after Tennant Creek, and started heading east towards Queensland. We pulled into the Barkly Homestead and roadhouse and filled up with fuel and booked a campsite for the night. As they are having a bat problem, and will have a siren going off tomorrow morning at 6am, we got the spot for free. A fair deal, though I might not think that it is at 6am!
We had a walk around and checked out the birds in an aviary that had been rescued, and looked at the small Indigenous art gallery they had. We returned to Bridget for a bit before returning to the roadhouse for dinner at the restaurant. We had a fair wait for dinner to be cooked, so we got to watch the sunset sky and tens of thousands of bats flying over in the sky. It was phenomenal, they just kept coming from everywhere. So yes they have a bat problem. We headed inside for Matt to enjoy some nice sirloin steak, chips and salad and a beer. We enjoyed our walk back to Bridget, and stars twinkling above in the clear night sky. Hoping Bridget isn’t covered in bat poo in the morning. Matt drove 525km today. We are knocking out these kilometres on this adventure.
So that’s over 2500 km in the last 6 days. Today travelling along the Barkly hwy we were crossing the Barkly Tablelands. Once again disappointed as there were no tables visible anywhere in the bush, they must’ve all been out at a restaurant somewhere.
If I lived on a tablelands somewhere , I’d dedicate a paddock to random tables that people could visit and maybe even contribute their own table to the attraction. Actually let’s not go to the tablelands, it is a silly place
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| Barkly tablelands |
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| Goannas made from chequerplate and signs and car parts. Barkly roadhouse |
