Day 12 Alice -> Tanami Road!!! The fun realllllly begins

 

Fuel Alice Springs $1.69 Tilmouth Well $2.24

 

Tanks filled and off we go, heading for the real bush now. 150km to Tilmouth Well, and after paying for liquid Gold at Tilmouth well, we finally hit dirt. Well, reports that the Tanami was in “the best condition it been in for years”soon make way for corrugations that could hide a Small car! Luckily these are interspersed with sections of reasonable road and bitumen. As we approach our intended destination of Renahan’s Bore they are getting fairly big and nasty. 6 hours of driving and we were all pretty over it.

 

Renahan's Bore: By Moonlight (116seconds @ F9)

Mandy had seen a post on Myswag.org about driving back away from the road and we were rewarded with a brilliant site about 100m back from the road. You could hear the Road Trains coming for 5 minutes before they went past, but they weren’t loud enough to wake you. An almost full moon and not a cloud to be seen. Magic!