Devil's Marbles (Karlu Karlu)

We were up early today with the kids, and took the lookout and loop walk adjacent to the campground before breakfast to beat the heat - a top of 37deg expected here today 🫠

We'd bought a power inverter in Alice Springs to run Starlink off-grid, so Ben spent a hot and dusty few hours installing it - with success! So we're much better connected now hopefully. While Ben toiled away and the kids played in the dirt I took advantage of having another walk start from the campground, and did a 4km loop through more balanced rock displays. It was already feeling very hot by the time I left about 10am, lucky it was a flat easy walk through some really interesting rock formations and termite mounds. I was keen to learn about how these rocks came to be in the middle of nowhere on the info signs when I returned - a combination of molten magma pushing up through sandstone, cooling granite and cracking, erosion and weathering from wind and water over millions of years. It really is as if they've been dropped in by air and arranged painstakingly in balanced stacks.

We had booked to stay another night, but with no shade, such high temps making any further walking very unappealing esp for the kids, and no other kids or people remaining at the campground for the kids to play with, we decided to continue north and break up the drive to our next stop, Daly Waters.

We drove for about 3 hours before stopping for the night in a free camp with a huge clearing off the highway, with just a few other vans for company.

We took full advantage of our newfound connectivity and had a video chat and set the kida up watching Stickman on the TV, while the sunset provided a beautiful show around us.Okumaya devam et