Borroloola

What will we do with all these vowels?

We planned to stay one day to stock up before another 8 days of off-grid camping. But! The shops had no food. “Trucks coming tomorrow!” Seems to be stock response. Bread? Tomorrow. Milk? tomorrow. Vegetables? Tomorrow.

So! We stay another day. Perhaps I should go down there and offer help to unpack this truck. I don’t know what time tomorrow means when your on NT time. It hadn’t arrived at 3:30 this afternoon. Hopefully we will be provisioned in the morning. At least Diesel is only $1.66 here.
ps: all stocked up. We actually picked up some nice looking delicatessen items. Just the thing that makes for happy campers.

A visit to the Museum before leaving revealed a wealth of info including many fillers for the gaps we had about Ludvic Leichhardt’s I’ll prepared and sometimes fatal expedition.

You can’t buy wine and only low strength beer in Borroloola. We chose to go without and ration our meagre supplies. We will see how that goes!Read more