Thursday: Late afternoon after picking up milk we drove out to the East Macdonnells which are not as well known. As a result the road, sorry Ross Hwy, is only 2 lane on crown land and 1 lane on private land. Quite scary when a truck is coming your way or a 4wd that won't move over or slow down.we saw a large Perentie and another lizard on road and slowed to let it pass but weren't quick enough with the camera.
We stopped to look at Jessie Gap as we felt it couldn't be left for the return journey - I wonder why??? This and Emily Gap which we looked at on our return on Saturday are very small in comparison to those in the West but of equal significance to the Aborigines.These sites had rock paintings that were part of the Arrente people's dreamtime story relating to where they came from through 3 caterpillars.
It has just occurred to me that I didn't mention the fact that all the sites we have visited are of significance to the Aborigines; either ceremonial, part of their dreamtime stories, initiations, ochre gathering, paintings etc. I often forget that many things we see are common knowledge to us through our travels previously and now but are not to others reading our blog.( we had travelled for days early on our trip through sugarcane, pineapple and cotton country before realising it might be of interest to others - tho' common to us).This is why I sometimes rave on about some things as I know it will be of interest to certain people - so thanks for your patience when reading!
We decided to miss Trephina Gorge as it was getting late and it was 8km's of corrigated dirt - a shame but this made us travel onto Ross River Homestead - a real find.It is a historic homestead with 3,284 square km's of grazing property which has accommodation and a campground with grass!!! and facilities in the middle of nowhere. The view was beautiful. So much so that on Friday we couldn't leave so we had an extra night and veged out( except for that dreaded washing).One problem,We had run out of milk and bread but the weather has been cooler since arriving in Alice so we decided to use our camp oven and bake our own damper rolls.Finally left on Saturday.
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