Well life at the campsite/paddock has settled down. Tom completed the camp fire oven for the owners and Monday night I made bread and Mike, the owner, made scones for the assembled multitude at sundowner time to test the new oven. Then yesterday all was routine as Tom made our campfire pit then Elaine made scones on our campfire in our camp oven. Then Tom made a camp oven stew in his big camp oven and we finished the night off with Baileys ice cream and milk before heading for bed. By the way a camp oven is a cast iron cooking pot which can be used in all sorts of ways to made roasts, stews, scones bread, etc and a campfire pit, in this instance, is an old gas bottle cut down and fitted with legs and a door.

This morning we all, our group of people not the whole camp site, started packing up which after a few days in the one spot takes a bit of time. Then we queued up to fill our water tanks, paid our bills and headed off. They headed west towards Broome and we headed to town to go shopping and fuelling. Then back on the road heading east towards the border. This is all a snapshot of life on the road and in a campsite. Other people there were following their plans, most heading west and doing some sightseeing before leaving Derby. We didn't do any sightseeing this time as we did that last year and the main reason for stopping in Derby was to spend some time with Laureen and Tom.

Back on the road again we soon got back into routine with Elaine driving and me studying the passing countryside. It is quite scenic up here with lots more growth than one would expect although most of it is fairly low there is also quite a bit of colour. The Boab trees are a feature some with and some without leaves, both look rather special. We also stopped today to collect a few Boab nuts and will look up how to prepare them for display. One of the other features are the thousands of anthills, or termite mounds, in all sorts of colours (depending I presume on the local soil colour) and shapes from large to small.

Tonight we have stopped at a place called Ellendale Lake, which is a very nice bush camping spot on private property. Obviously a very friendly owner! Here we will put the portable fire pit and camp oven to good use making roast chicken.