Sunday Happy Fathers Day Martin. Today is wash day and general clean up. Once the washing is on the line Martin empties the blow up pool and hangs it to dry. Chris and Peter visit again on one of their walks. We get the books and maps out and plan the next leg of the trip. About half of the campsite is empty and we decide that we'll leave tomorrow. We drive into town for fuel, water and bread. Because we're at the bakery we have pies for lunch and take a lem...

Saturday We wake to the second race day and after some discussion last night about whether we'd go we've decided that you can't come all the way to Birdsville without going to both days. This time though we are taking our stools. We get to the bus and although we are the first stop it is already fully seated. They pack people on down the aisle and it looks full to me long before they stop packing people in. There is a group in front of us when I here them ask ...

Friday The shuttle bus starts at 10.30 and the gates for the races open at 10.45 but the first race isn't till 12.30 so we've decided to do some washing and then go to the races. We get up fairly early to get it on so that it will be dry before we need to leave. We've been showering with the little blow up pool in the bottom of the shower (to avoid creating mud and to recycle the water for hand washing). We drop the dirty clothes in this water to soak while we ...

Thursday While there have been things on in town each day since Tuesday today is the first day that anything really interested us. We'd also forgotten to buy the tickets to the races yesterday so we walked into town and bought tickets for Friday ($20 each) and decided we'd get the tickets for Saturday at the track. Martin had a hotdog for lunch and I went to the fish truck for prawns. Six "bloody big king" prawns and sauce - yum yum yum. While we were there we ...

Wednesday It's off this morning for Big red take 2. Quite a few more cars out here this morning and after letting the tyres down we head up Little Red. As we reach the top there is a car parked on the track with all four people out alongside it. Given that we're driving in sand I don't know how Martin manoeuvred the Patrol to avoid them. Four adults and not a brain between them. Once down the other side we turned right and headed over to Big Red. There is a lin...