Day 105

13/09/2009

Headed out of the campsite about 8am and very soon overtook our second vehicle. The same campervan we overtook yesterday which had left the campsite a little before us.

As we've headed south the landscape hasn't shown any dramatic change. The terrain is fairly flat (yesterday's lunch stop claimed to be the highest pub in Northern Territory at 181 metres and 4cm!) and the land is covered by low trees with small bushes beneath them. For thousands of years fires have burnt the trees, bushes and grass, whether started accidentally or deliberately to clear land. Many of the trees have developed a way to cope with this and can be seen with severely chared trunks but with green leaves sprouting from their higher branches.

As we moved southward the trees became thinner and smaller leaving more space for small bushes and grasses. As we are at the end of the dry season everything is looking very parched, but as soon as the rain comes, it will be transformed.

Later in the day much of the land beside the road had been completey cleared to provide grazing for cattle, although they weren't showing much interest in the dry grass.

Another roadside campsite tonight, over the state boundary in Queensland.

Lat 19 55.21 S
Long 138 07.09 E
Distance 1873km
Town Camboweal