Day 32 - Wolfe Creek, 29th July 2025

 Up early as usual, the body clock has changed! 🤦‍♀️ We went for a walk over the old bridge and checked out the campground. 





And then we were off - 228 kilometres to Wolfe  Creek!
The first 100 ish kilometres was on the main road so not a problem. The next 130 were on gravel, very rough, very dusty and severely corrugated in many, many parts! Whoever told us the road wasn’t that bad was having us on!
At the turn off from Tanami Road we decided to check inside the van. Carnage!! 😢 The top of the table had unscrewed itself and lay on the floor, amongst a dozen or so screws from various parts of the van! The oven door was hanging from one side and one of the vents had opened so everything was covered in red dust!  


The next 20 kilometres (22 actually!) were horrendous! More ruts, corrugation, dust and a particularly deep dip! Finally we made it to camp, along with Sus and Amanda of course. 💖

Time to assess the damage again! It got worse! The oven had almost unscrewed itself completely, the freezer door almost fell off when I opened it and the sliding door to the ensuite had unscrewed itself from the floor!  On top of that, going through the dip had bent the jockey wheel and broke the exterior tap. We had also lost screws from the tv bracket and added another layer of dust. Then I opened the fridge! The milk carton was leaking, the lids were off all of my sauces, the sour cream and worst of all the olives, which had then splashed liquid everywhere!! Oh joy!

After Ian did some panel beating on the jockey wheel and I cleaned the van, we headed off to the crater for the 3.4 kilometre rim walk. The two and a half hour walk took us just over an hour to do, a rough trail but easy to follow and a great view all the way around.






Back to camp for a coffee thanks to Cafe Menner and then we packed our bags, grabbed our chairs and headed back up to the crater to watch the sunset.











Back to camp for a delicious steak and salad dinner …


…before getting ready for our movie night - Wolf Creek at Wolfe Creek. And yes, it was scary!!










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