Wilpena Pt2

The weather gods are once again smiling. Today has been absolutely stunning. We even had the awning up and did some other odd jobs. Cliff, our neighbour and life long friend from Gympie came over and is a wealth of information and handy tips for newbie travellers like us. "Mornin, Cliff", "Bryan". "Do you remember we were talking about ......... last night......". So we sat in the sun at 9am and let it all sink in, Cliff left about an hour later, and we went (scrambled) off for our ride.

Cliff and his wife are quite honestly really great people actually. He's an ex postie, and she's an ex teacher. Their daughter believe it or not married a copper, and she also teaches in Gympie. Does that sound familiar.

We decided to do a section of the Mawson trail, to the north of our camp. Rose looked at the trail path with some trepidation, as we all know "Rose does not do dirt". Well after a tentative start, she was riding through creeks and over rocks like she was borne to it. We had the mountain range to our left and we were in a valley floor and rode for about 10-15km's mostly slightly downhill on the way out.
If we were following a creek it must be downhill... right!.... der! 

The ride back took a little longer.

We spied this little critter on the way

Note the slope of the track...

We're departing tomorrow. Heading back toward Pt Augusta to stock up, then we're heading north. We may end up at a little place about 60km's short of Cooper Pedy (Lake Hart) in the next day or two...