Our anti-fly strategy wasn’t as effective this morning, I think the flies must have figured it out and they were up and about before sunrise which was a bit unsporting of them. Anyway, we coped and got everything done we needed to get done !

It was a bit overcast first thing so we didn’t wait for the sun to get quite as high before setting off for our final challenge of the crossing “Big Red”. I lowered the tyre pressures a bit last night (they were already pretty low but wanted to give ourselves every chance) and with Big Red only a couple of kilometres from our overnight stop the tyres were still nice and cool when we got there. (See video clip at the bottom of this post)

As it was we got up it first time so we didn’t have to take the diversionary track which was a bonus 🙂 I stopped as soon as we were over the crest so we could take a picture from outside the vehicle of this land mark in our journey.

After Big Red the track headed across yet another salt lake before bearing right. After that the road got better and better until we were on the graded road all the way into Birdsville. As we have arrived 3 days before Mal is due to arrive we’ve decided to treat ourselves to a night of relative luxury, staying in a motel room at the Birdsville Hotel for the night.

We’ll go off on a little side tour for the next couple of days and take in a few of the local sites before heading back to Birdsville for the 20th when Mal is due to arrive.

http://youtu.be/1ClwH8hN3D4