Awesome scenery at rest stops

Along the way about every hundred kilometers or so there is a rest stop and they are advertised on the road well before so stops can be planned. There are others as well that are just a pull in off the road but these are just that, a chance to get off the road and stop.

The others that are sign posted have the symbols of toilets, shade and picnic tables some even have dumps points and can stay overnight/24 hours.

We stopped at two of these on the way to Kununuura and the scenery in each of these was stunning. The first one was called something or other cliffs, I dont remember the name but I certainly remember the scenery. It was a bit of a drive in off the road but so worth it.

There is a bus parked to the top right, that is how big the parking area was, the toilets were about a hundred metres to the bottom left of photo. As we were so high above the road, it was a little windy but that made it feel cool. I think the bus had been there more than 24 hours, although unless you were writing or painting, I could not imagine staying there for long.

The photos really dont do it justice as it was far more serene than they show.

The next stop for us was a hundred and ten ks far and it was called Mary Pool, not Mary's just Mary.

We drove in as the sign stated shade, toilets, dump point and picnic tables. At the entrancement there was only an industrial rubbish bin, so we drove further and over a rise, it was gravel and we saw the shade and then we were on a concrete road that had lots of holes where water had washed through, by that time we were committed to keep going as we couldnt turn the car and van around. Another km and we were there, at an opening with large trees, toilets and tables. We parked under the trees to allow the car to cool down and set off for the toilet block when Warren turned back to the car saying that there probably wouldn't be any toilet paper. He unearthed a roll from the van that is kept for such times. To our surprise paper was supplied!

Plenty of cattle just through the fence who were used to people coming thru as they just went about their feeding. The concrete road went across water and made rock pools on either side and is apparently a regular with the locals to go for picnics and a swim although there had been a salt water croc sighting about a month ago. The water was low when we were there with no water spilling over but there was water on each side. It was a welcome break and after a few minutes taking in the scenery we were ready for the next hundred ks which would take us into Halls Creek. Unfortunately I have no photos of Mary Pool.

Another great thing about both these stops, no or very few flies!

The end of April

I made it! There were times when I didn't that I would manage to make it. I agreed to do two challenges in the month of April.

 One was called the Ultimate Blog challenge and that was to blog every day for a month. I remember writing on a face book page that it was day 6 and I had no idea what I was going to write about for that day nor the coming days but I did complete it. Some days were better than others, some days the words just flowed, there were other days that I really did have to think about it. Going into a new month, the challenge has finished and I may continue to blog every day or I may not, I do enjoy the writing but its whether or not I have something to write.

The other challenge was called a photo a day and there are prompts for each day to lodge a photo that fits the prompt. Yesterdays was called "something silly" and this was my photo for the day.

I made several of these (its a bunny, can just see the ears and whiskers) on the eve of Easter and delivered them to foreign teachers when we were living in China. Just a bit of fun and silliness to remember Easter than people at home would be experiencing. There are 15000 people from around the world who join in with PAD (photo a day) and there are some fantastic photos being generated. It is a closed FB page and people need to be a member. I will be continuing this month, some of the prompts for this month are Pet, Create, side view and blue. This was fun and made me think about what I was taking and why, I used some old photos and took some new ones as well for a particular purpose in mind.

During the month, I also finished editing the book that I wrote last November, I didn't touch it for two months and then I did a couple of chapters every few days. My darling daughter is going to do the final formatting part of it and then it will be sent to the publishers. I need to find a cover pic for it.