GROUND ZERO TODAY

Sheryl and Dave rolled in around 7.30 am…apparently they weren’t too far from our campsite they headed here to have a look at Totem which was ground Zero which in all our area the Observation Deck had nothing to look at..,

I am getting slower and slower in the mornings I am sure….even did my readings around the fire today to make up time and still slow...I made toast to eat on the way…then we did a 12k round trip to the Totem’s Ground Zero area to do our own looking…was worth it even if for the historic significance….looking at the crn plates that held the Atomic Bomb had massive nuts and bolts twisted from the impact…
Two big Totems approx. 3-4 km apart which now represents the Atomic Bomb Sites from 1953….70yrs ago… the vegetation around the blast sites are still very very sparse…compared about 10k circumference before you start to see the trees regrowing...low salt bushes and other low bushes cover the area, but markedly different than further back…very interesting…the area was littered with cement blocks used to hold things down when the blast occurred…old drums...and a pipe in the ground we assume the pipe had some sort of electrical lead in it...we could see this every so often on the road as we drove along..,

The road all in all considering we had been told it is horrendous wasn’t too bad…challenging yes…but the corrugations were no worse than some other areas we have been at….a few times they shook us to pieces…l we made good head way thinking it was going be a really slow trip…even the Vans are making good headway….

Stop for lunch in a peaceful spot with lots of birds cheeping…Sheryl and Dave arrived just after 1 pm we arrived dead on 12….we had had toasted sandwich's wuth that awful bread we bought at the 1/2 way point….
So many birds…unreal…
The road after lunch became very difficult very corrugated

Made a damper

Ended having some of Sheryl’s stew tomato base so both needed gaviscon..
Late night waiting for the damper to cook but as I made it so moist it took forever…もっと詳しく