403kms / 6 ¼ hrs

Today we hit 10,000 kms in 5 weeks and 2 days!

Bronte had us up early this morning so we left Fitzroy Crossing at 7am. We had to stop about 4 times within the first hour of the trip for toilet stops, so we didn't get a very good start!

After a recommendation from a fellow camper we stopped at Laarri Gallery (which is 170km from Fitzroy Crossing). It's an aboriginal art gallery attached to a school. The art work was beautiful and we would have loved to have bought something but the price range was a few hundred dollars up to $2,000 so we decided we would just look. We were hoping we might have been invited into the school as well but we weren't and we didn't want to intrude. As we were leaving a tour bus turned up so we should have stayed and we probably would have got the full tour. It was a lovely little community to see and by the looks of things all the teachers and the principal were Caucasian. The principal has been there for 9 years and has two small children.

We then stopped at Halls Creek and refuelled then drove the further 100kms to Leycesters Rest area on the Ord River where we are camping tonight.

We had a lazy afternoon talking to the people next to us and they have been travelling for 3 years and have just started fossicking in the last 18months. They showed us their opals, gem stones and gold which they have found and they had a very impressive collection. Rog is keen to get a metal detector and have a go now!

Another couple that we meet at The Lake are also staying here so they came over for a chat. We then went for a walk to the causeway and looked at the dry river bed of the Ord River.

The kids kept going over to the couple next door so that gave Roger and I time to cook dinner and get our food ready for tomorrow as we are leaving around 6:30am for the Bungle Bungles. The couple gave our kids some more shells so Josh took one of his big shells over as a swap and they also gave the kids some stones (which I can't remember what they were called)

We had a butterflied lamb with potato and vegetables for dinner and enjoyed it outside watching the last remnants of the sun.

It's 7:30pm and the kids and Roger are all fast asleep. Bronte is doing really well without her dummy now and didn't even ask for it tonight.

Leycesters Rest is named after a 13 year old boy who died here. There is a beautiful memorial for him telling the story about him and how the rest area was named after him. It was very sad reading it.