Rest Day In Alice ..

Wow, well we all slept extremely well last night.  We all crashed early and slept well until about 7 am this morning and it was only 1 degrees.  We rigged up and all met at 8 am to head to a small Cafe for breakfast.  Kim was still crashed out so we left her to sleep.  The breakfast was really yummy and Troy opted for a Big Breakfast as his last substantial one before we finish the Trek. 

After breakfast we headed into the Main Street as the local markets were on.   I few little trinkets were purchased including some $5 Fly Flickers which could come in very handy over the coming weeks. Mumma C also purchased some pretty amazing home made aboriginal patterned jumpsuit.   Can’t wait to see her rock it on Big Red !

We did a last minute chemist run for medical supplies and then headed back to our accommodation.   We spent the next few hours sitting in the bbq area enjoying the sun. 

We left our motel at 5 pm and made our way to the Gap Hotel for our briefing with Camel Paddy. We met the support crew - ken, Kim and Alex and they seem like a great bunch.   Paddy gave us a briefing and lots of questions were asked.  We then had dinner and a last few drinks.  

We are getting picked up at 6.45 am tomorrow morning and have a 7 hour trip mostly on dirt to get to Dalhousie Springs where we will camp for the night.  Once we get there we will have no service until we finish 22 days later when I will upload all the blogs.  Remember to tune into Newcastle Live to listen to the three crosses to us via the satellite phone to hear how we are doing.  Keep an eye on the Jennys Place website for the live update posts,

We are now in the cab heading back to our motel to pack up and get some sleep.  We are all anxious about what is to come but we have in the forefront of our minds the women and children we are doing it for.    We got this..,

Donna xx