From last night’s campsite (33km from Bramwell Station Roadhouse) towards the Jardine river ferry [142km to go (with a 6km detour to swim at Fruit-bat falls) at start of day]
Slept in, …on the road about 6:20am.
Good morning! To all here with me.
Just a bit before sunrise:
After walking till 8:30am… a bit of a slig! Gexpecting to have done 7-10km. I check my map again to see how many km left (and take that from 142 km). From here it says only 182km to go! (???) I do think I'm going the right way… but maybe last night the map had defaulted to one of the shortcuts through the Old Tele Track? No! Found out what it was - I had added the Fruitbat falls as another point to visit but it was added as an end-point not a way-point, so it had me getting to the Jardine Ferry then doubling back to FruitbatFalls. It is really 128km… so that’s…(142-128=) 14 km done since I started on the road that s morning! Time for some breaky!
Lovely… pack up again around 9:30am to get a good 2 hr in before a middle (heat) of the day break.
Thanks for the loveliness of regularity (as well as spontenaity/ irregularity).
Stephen & Diana From Bonny Doone in Vic. stopped to say G’day
and see if they could help, .. we got a photo… then they gave me a handful of nuts to keep going this morning, then ..
a bag of 2 min noodles for the next few days, then a classic coke to help for morning tea… Off again… they might make Archer River today then work on the locks on the van which have got a bit stuck… Thanks folk, for connecting with and blessing me.
Next… from WilliamsTown in South Australia,
L to R: (Back row): Sully, Esther, (front row): Finley, Hamish, Penelope,
Dad: Dave, Mum: Naomi,
on a “5 weeks to the Cape” adventure. And… Might get some audio books to listen to together…
They gave me a cold lemonade & a cold passionfruit drink and 3 cans of baked beans to keep me going. How good is that! Thanks people.
John Reichenbach from (Glenlee, near) Horsham In Vic, a retired farmer. Coming up to do the tip and wandering about… (his wife flew home recently)
In his VW Touareg, taking opportunities to connect with people as he comes & goes (Told me about John Alley from Rocky … & various Christian Churches he has been involved with, and experiences of blessings and cursings)
Thanks for sharing a Sunday meal with me, and telling me bits of your story, as well as asking me regarding my own. We also discussed a bit what blessings and cursings mean, and maybe how they might work …
And, John swapped me some sardines and tinned ham for one of my corned beef tins, that I was getting sick of.. Thanks mate!
Back on the road by ~3:10pm..
About 4:30pm, a family carload stop to check out what on Earth I am doing…
Danni, Brooke, Larni, Remi, Deegan, Kobi (left to right). will bring a drink and a pie with them tomorrow, and, I am going to try to do a drawing of the Mum & Dad overnight for them to take tomorrow. What fun.
Just after 6pm who should I meet driving from in front towards me … but
They’ve swapped drivers now, Shawn and Leah, followed by her Dad, Darren Adams & Mum, Helen, (& their dog) who made it to the Tip! They showed me a picture of the whole 5 at the tip (yesterday or this morning?). Now they head back to Bramwell, then on to The Savannah Way, through Darwin to Broome.. Thanks for the nut bar and mineral water too Darren. May you folk be blessed with love and truth in all your relationships: especially family and friendships.
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