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Outside the Camoweal servo.
I drove Keith (for the 1st time since we left Redcliffe) to the 3 Ways and down to Tennant Creek.
We drove into the Devil's Marbles camp ground and set up for the night. It was only $3.30/pp with long drop toilets.
Saturday 28 July: We went for a walk at sunrise next morning and when we got back to the camp, there was a dingo roaming around. He decided to wait near a rather rotund man who was cooking a big breakfast outside his van.
We drove down the Stuart Hwy and got as far as Wycliffe Wells servo to take some photos. It is an alien hotspot appartently...I noticed that our outside battery door on Keith was missing, so we headed back to the Marbles to have a look. Not far up the road, Danny commented that the fuel gauge was pointing at below half. That was weird, we hadn't used that much petrol we thought. Then, the gauge went up, down again and finally back to normal. There was only one answer: ALIENS.Anyway, Danny spotted the battery door on the Marbles access road, put it back on and once again we headed back down the hwy. This time the gauge was fine, but we re-fueled at Wycliffe Wells, even though it was honking expensive, just in case.
Finally we got to the Tanami Road turnoff (20km from Alice Springs) and after about 30km, we arrived at the Hamiliton Downs Youth Camp gate. We weren't too pleased that they use 1080 on the dingos as it is a death sentence for all animals. We would have to keep Indigo inside and carefully watched outside. But no free roaming unfortunately.
We drove up the 25km dirt driveway and coming up to the 10km mark hill...Keith runs out of petrol! Luckily we had our jerry can in the back and that was enough to get us to the homestead.
We were a couple of days later than anticipated - but Keith got us here!
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