It was -2 degrees C overnight but warmed up quickly to 6 degrees C this morning.
Col saw a dingo sitting next to our cold campfire this morning when he first got up. The toilet paper was shredded, and the calico bag for the dunny was missing.
After breakfast and packing up camp, I cleaned up the dingo mess. Jack and Siân came for a walk with me to search the dingo's lair. We found plenty of dingo scat, but no bag. We were packed up at 0745hrs but didn't leave until 0800hrs because of the fruitless bag search.
Driving north along the Strzelecki 'highway' are endless fields of yellow wildflowers.
Then heading east towards Merty Merty corner, the creamy clay coloured sand changes firstly to pink, then orange. We were driving over small dunes on the eastern track, but with a smooth clay base. Lots of yellow flowers on every dune.
There was no yellow bus west of the corner. It's now a brand-new cattle yard with a sign saying 'no camping'.
We got to Cameron's Corner at 1100hrs. There were motorbike riders everywhere. The Pajero was topped up with fuel and we had pies, sausage rolls and coffee in the roadhouse. Jordan was hilarious at the corner marker post, running from state to state (SA, NSW, QL).
Siân opened the gate for the dingo fence, and we were in NSW corner country by 1200hrs. Third time lucky. Our two previous attempts were in 2010 and 2012, both of which were closed from flooding. Once through the fence into NSW there were about 30 emus and hundreds of kangaroos. I enjoyed the smaller track that took us into the 'coat of arms junction' otherwise known as Olive Downs.
We went for a lovely short nature walk near our camp here and saw loads of kangaroos in the gibber hills. We've now left the sand dunes of the NW corner of NSW and have entered what is referred to 'jump up country'. Gibber plains and mesas.
Just ran out of water from our 60L tank. Lucky we have 2 more 20L containers.
Everyone seems exhausted today. We've just paid our NP self-registration fees and sat down to a nibbles plate that includes Gina's quince paste. Jack has pulled out the backgammon/chess/dominoes case but Jordan was hoping for a poker night.
After dinner and a bit of a chat, we ended up having an early night.
No fires allowed here.
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