First Camp in Desert

Day 10-2 Hay River Track

Woke up this morning to the birds singing and an overcast day. We had a sprinkling of rain last night. We are hoping it stays that way. Set off this morning passing vehicles in both directions from the start. We are heading for the QLD/NT border. Arrived there around smoko time so we pulled up for smoko and to air up our tires. We passed a hose float laying wrecked on the QAA Line. After smoko we took the K1 line to Popels corner. This was along the salt lake western edge and we could sit on around 60 k’s an hour. Once again many cars. Got to Poppels Corner and there were about a dozen cars there already. Everyone having there photo taken at the Corner of the three states. From here we took the alternate route back to the QLD border to continue our run north along the Hay River track. We met a few cars along here as well. The track condition changed to more like rig roads. Until we hit the dune section again. On the dune sect we ran into three Explorer trucks set up with their campers on the back. They were some pretty flash setups. One was even towing a trailer. We had to get off the road for them because they were too big to move their asses off the road. Anyway it was a contentious issue I should have taken Rell’s advise and moved off the road earlier. Anyway it all went well and we all passed. We then headed for our camp for the night. When we finally selected one there was already an Isuzus truck setup like Sheryl and Dave’s camped there. The area was a bit tight so we decided to move on a little and find a roadside stop. Well the area we selected wasn’t the best but we put up with it and setup for the night. We had a nice dinner and while sitting around the fire a fox strolled in as if he owned the place. Wasn’t real worried about us. We had to shoo him away. He will probably be back while we sleep. Good night.Meer informatie