The rain finally stopped at about 9 pm. Troy slept on his tent floor with no sleeping mat or sleeping bag. Ali and I both slept in her tent using the dry parts of her mattress to lay our heads on and the rest of us on the tent floor. Lisa and Emma slept in one of the cars. Mumma had all mine and Ali’s luggage in her tent. It wasn’t the best night sleep for anyone but we all just made do.
This morning when we got up the area we were camped in was a boggy muddy mess. We all had breakfast and then started hanging our mattresses, tent flys, pillows, sleeping bags and clothes off the Gigi trees to dry.
We weren’t moving from this camp site again today as there was concern the support vehicles could get bogged.
Originally we were only needing to do 16 kms per day for today and the next two days but because we couldn’t walk due to the rain, it meant we now needed to do 22 kms per day.
As we had to stay at the same camp site again, we decided we would do 12 kms before lunch and 10 kms after lunch. So we walked for 6 kms, had a break and then walked 6 kms back to camp. We then did the same thing in the afternoon but going the other way. It’s not ideal walking back over the part you have already done but we were determined to still do the full amount of 440 kms.
It was a windy day so when we got back into camp for lunch nearly everything was dry. The Camp looked like a Chinese laundry !
As our tents were already up, once we got into camp we were able to enjoy some time around the camp fire talking about yesterdays events.
They haven’t see rain like we had out here for years and we got 25 mls of rain. The Birdsville Races even got cancelled.
After another yummy dinner we all headed to bed. Everyone was excited about being able to stretch out again in their dry tents. It is a really still night - the wind has stopped and we were all enjoying the stillness tonight.
Today we did our 22 kms over 6 hours and 36,022 steps. We now only have 49 kms to reach Big Red. We are all getting very excited as it’s getting so close.
Unfortunately the rains didn’t bring out the camels- still no sightings.
Until tomorrow
Donna
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