Day 2 - Great Northern Highway

Leycester rest stop was one of the best examples of freedom one could experience, free camping, free water , free electricity! Didn’t cost us anything but gave us everything. We packed up our home and got on the road to our next free camp, Mary Pool Campground - 209km.
We needed to stop at Halls Creek renowned for kids lobbing stones at vehicles driving through, the fuel station was down a back street littered with empty alcohol bottles and rubbish, the place was a mess! I can only imagine if you came through late and fuel at this back street self service you probably run into a gang of kids trying their intimidation tactics to get what they can. Then we got drinking water from the fuel station on the side of the road!

We arrived around midday, Billy had another swim to cool down and later on as the sunset Paul and Vincent threw a line in.Read more