Timber Creek

300 kms on from Leliyn / Edith Falls we pulled up at Timber Creek. We used all the town's resources... we filled up with diesel (still cheaper than Sydney) and stayed at the caravan park. 

The outback is full of backpackers, and Timber Creek is no exception. Nicholas from Argentina showed us to our site. 

Nice shady spot, but sun at the back for a solar panel. Perfect.

I wonder how a person explains to their family and friends the work they are doing in Australia when that job in such a remote location has a job description that includes showing campers to their site, gardening and crocodile feeding and kite (bird) feeding?

Boab trees are everywhere 

We had a good afternoon here, swimming as well as cooking up a few meals to eat and freeze so we could use up vegetables and get them into WA without having to lose them.

This of course included using up all our tomatoes in a delicious bruschetta!

In the end,  the only thing we had to leave behind was honey and a few pieces of fruit. They get left in a community box for a local indigenous old persons' home. 

We had a lazy, slow start to the next day, given that WA is one and a half hour behind and we were only travelling 225 kms, so no point getting too early a start. 

Along the way we passed The Gregory Tree, an old boab with dates carved into it from Gregory's expedition.

Next stop Lake Argyle- those of you our age who gew up in Australia... primary school Social Studies memories.