Nice start at 7:45am….so easy to have breakfast and get the caravan on the road compared to our previous trips with a tent. Overall, very little traffic on the road in either direction……occasionally some very large trucks. I am amazed at how far mobile phone coverage is now up the middle of Australia. Received a call regarding Rotary matters from fellow Lilydale club member some distance above Glendambo. We had a fuel stop earlier at Glendambo.
Not many live animals sadly……..some road-kill which attracts a few wedge tail eagles and many crows.
Stopped for lunch at 12 noon and Michael cooked egg & bacon in Turkish flat bread ……very tasty…..will have to go for a good walk late
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We are always blown away by the vastness and emptiness of our country, and wonder how the early explorers achieved what they did. It is very dry, and we have not seen any water. We came across a couple of kilometres of quite green grasses growing in patches and along the roadside…..that little spot must have had a generous cloud overhead.
We arrive at Anita Bushsite Camp around 3:15…a really great large free camping site and it is good to be off the road at an earlier time. Tony is pleased, as 
he can have a fire for cooking and then to sit around after our meals. The only down-side was that we were immediately set upon by small bush flies, so out came the fly nets for all four of us. I think the flower on the left is a paraleeka, or something like that. Did not bring our flower or bird books. SIGH.
Tony and Michael practised putting the awnings up.
Around 5ish, another couple showed up to the campsite. Tony invited them to share our campfire…..they were 2 young ladies from France who have been travelling through the outback after a period of work in Denmark WA.
Tony got a lesson on Wiki Camps from one of the young ladies…..totalled thrilled and amazed with this APP and said we should be using it….Hehe I put it on his phone a couple of months ago, and have been radioing through suggested sites to him as the lead driver. Tony also discovered that she was a deer shooter in France, so had plenty to talk to her about hunting and shooting etc. She used the ground to draw many images to help her in communicating with us.
The flies had gone to bed upon dusk, so we sat and chatted until it became too cold despite the great fire. The girls showed some of their wildlife photos taken, which we helped identify. Some new APPS were shared with them.
We agree for an 8:00am start for next morning.
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