April 23rd: left the not really very special Marla Roadhouse, with nothing food wise n the supermarket to take my fancy! We hit the bitumen after reinflating our tyres after 5 days on the gravelly/ dusty somewhat corrugated  Oodnadatta track! Such easy driving as we slipped back into Cruise, but still not travelling at >90km/hour - a comfortable speed with the van behind without totally blow out the fuel consumption! We drove 415km today and that is about our limit with 2 drivers, to free camp at Curtin Springs, about 108 km short of Uluru, passing impressive Mt Connor on the way.

Now I have been alerted by my loyal reader Paul that I haven’t been mentioning the G& T’s! This has been seriously misleading on my part, as in reality we have one( and only one) most nights and are now onto our 2nd bottle of gin, Bombay Sapphire from Leigh Creek where Nic had to show his drivers licence in order to to purchase it! A more serious problem has been obtaining the tonic! We have left the days of Feverfew well behind! Got Schweppes for a while and at Marla could only get Cascade- maybe OK for beer but not really for tonic! Our tonight’s G&T is helping me write the blog, after our ritual pot of tea on arrival of course!

It is great to be able to free camp at Curtin Springs, as the $63 per night we have to pay at our next stop Uluru is certainly not cheap! 

Visited the aviary here to see Corellas and budgies, and then it will be pesto brought frozen from  home made with our basil for dinner.

Mount Connor from the highway
Our campsite at Curtin Springs 
Corella and budgies in aviary Curtin Springs







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