For the first morning of the trip we woke up to clouds covering the sky. They weren't threatening rain but just made the morning a little duller and warmer. We packed up pretty quickly and were on the road west by 8 am. We turned north onto Haast's Bluff road as Brett had organized permits for us awhile ago. The sky was still cloudy but there was one round hole in the clouds that was lighting up selected hills around us.
We stopped off at a memorial and took some pictures of the Bluff and while we were there the round hole in the clouds lit up the Bluff perfectly, producing some wonderful photos.
We continued north then east to loop around onto the Tanami Track where we headed north, stopping off at Tilmouth Roadhouse to refuel the cars and have an early bit of lunch. We had about 830 Kms to go until Halls Creek, so the extra fuel was needed. The bitumen ran out about 80 Kms north of the roadhouse but the dirt road was wide and in very good condition and we could cruise on about 90 kph pretty easily, although I had to drop back quite away to avoid Shane's dust. Unfortunately, a bit later on Shane was a bit quick through one of the random bits of bitumen marking a flood crossing and he dented his sump guard on the diff causing quite a bit of knocking from the engine. Unfortunately, he couldn't fix this as he had done before with a few good hammer blows.
We stopped a few times beside the road for drinks and to see if the knocking noise from his engine had gone away, but no such luck. We stopped at around 5'ish at a nice little camp site called Quartz Ridge and set up camp for the evening.
There wasn't much wood around for a fire so it will probably be a relatively early evening in bed.
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