We have arrived in the Outback.

How do we know? well Fuel is now $170.9 an rising, the biggest tree on the horizion is no more than 4 mtrs and there is no water laying around.

Now for what it's like at night. The sky is BLACK very BLACK and there are millions of stars, bright and sparkling and the milky way is huge and spectacular out here. When you are tucked up in bed there are also some things you have to get used to - from about 2am the howls of dingoes in the distance, the coughing bark of the camels, the braying of donkeys, you know hee haa etc etc etc, and then there is the soft Thump thump thump of a kangaroo landing outside your van looking for something green. When you get up in the weeeee hours to go to the john you have to check just who is outside loitering, it is very easy to get a surprise in the dark !!! Sounds just like home LOL

Today we arrived at Winton, the home of Waltzing Maltida and they have a great exhibit dedicated to the story. Tomorrow we are off to the Lark Dinosaur run, which is about 100klms of dirt from here but is the only recorded imprints of a Dinosaur stampede in the world, so we are quite excited about seeing it.