We originally were going to go back via Winton as we missed going to the Dinosaur Museum there. But we have now visited two other dinosaur museums and have decided we have seen enough for the moment so we headed on roads not driven by us previously. Arrived at Torrens Creek, topped up with fuel, let down all eight tyres and hit the dirt road. We are heading in the direction of Aramac with the first 33 km being dirt. We managed to navigate the corrugations and dust reasonably smoothly no thanks to the idiot doing what appeared to be over 100km coming towards us. We had to just about come to a standstill as the dust was so thick we could not see the bull bar in front of us. When we saw a roadtrain heading towards us we presumed we would not be able to see again but he slowed right down and we passed each other easily. We averaged 60 kmph for the 33 km. When back on the bitumen we pulled over to pump the tyres up. This took us 45 minutes but included a peak in the van to see if any damage had been done. Once again we had a mess in the fridge. The lid had come off the pickled onions and the liquid had spilled out. Put the lid back on and travelled a further 70 km to a roadside stop. We pulled up and had lunch and decided to stay for the night allowing us time to clean the fridge. We also found that something had pierced a whole in a bottle of water so that was also trickling out. Mopped up the mess and cleaned the fridge. Our campsite is adjacent to the road and from 1pm to 4pm six cars drove past, from 4pm to 6pm two cars went past. From 6 pm to 10 pm one roadtrain passed. Overnight four roadtrains went by that I heard, Ian managed to sleep through two of them! As we were the only ones staying here Ian once again set the camera up to experiment with his star photos.
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