Ellenbrae

Another short drive today, to get to Ellenbrae station. The top selling item here is a home made scone with jam and cream, so naturally we bought 4 serves. That was lunch sorted, as these scones are huge! All served in what resembles an English country garden - surreal.

The next day has been spent doing schoolwork, and splashing in waterholes around the property. We also ran out of LPG today, much earlier than expected. This presents a problem, in that we need to make our remaining cylinder last until Mt Barnett, where we plan to be in a few weeks. Time to lift our game and cook over the fire more often, plus wash up in cold or cooler water.

Centine was a total pain in the bum this morning, screaming and carrying on from the safety of her high chair whilst papa and mama packed away the trailer, and couldn’t have her underfoot. When we came to collect her, we understood a little more - she was strapped in to her high chair with a massive spider! (Auntie Centine, or Tante Toos, had a similar experience in the car as a baby…)
It was missing a few legs, so I think she may have encouraged it to move on already…

So far the Gibb River Road has been quite forgiving on us - the Pentecost and Durack river crossings, which I had been worried about, were both barely up to our axles, and the rest of the road is rocky and corrugated, but no worse than other roads we have driven. Big difference being this road goes on a bit further i guess…
Steep and narrow bits have even been asphalted now, hinting at what the future holds for the route. I wonder if it will be as popular when no longer the 4wd adventure it is marketed as today.Weiterlesen