Auski Roadhouse is nearly 2000 feet above sea level an during winter the wind just howls through there from the east. This morning we had a bit less wind but still a bit nippy at 12°C when we left the Roadhouse. Today's track took us north, nearly 300km towards Port Hedland. We have been warned that Port Hedland is not a nice place to stop so South Hedland was our next best option. We stocked up with fresh Fruit & Veg, fuelled up the car, and we were happy to leave South Hedland behind as it wasn't that good a place to stop either.
We stopped for lunch on the side of the road a few km's north and enjoyed the much warmer temperature of 27°C. Another 80km north along the track we found a beautiful rest area on the De Grey river and decided to stay there for the night
. There were 50 or more caravans and motor homes parked along the river, all in their own private shady spot. As most rivers up here the De Grey is also flowing under the surface but there were quite substantial areas of water in the river bed.We parked our caravan on a level spot and, together with our travelling companions Ron & Vicki, got a campfire going to cook our steak. I made bread and butter pudding for desert using the grill in our caravan.
We also caught up with a couple of young blokes we'd see back in Coral Bay over 1000km ago. We remember seeing them as they were travelling on their push bikes with a little trailer behind each bike. Their names are Paul and Matt, they've left Port Macquarie (NSW) over 4 month ago and pedalled some 10,000km across the bottom part of the country and up the west coast. As you can imagine they looked very fit after doing up to 200km a day for last 4 month.
We sat around the campfire and looked at some stars until before retiring to bed in this unreal and tranquil setting on the side of the De Grey river.
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