Friday 3rd September

Up with the sun, all 52 of us clamoured aboard the Troopy -then began the extermination – 5 to Cathy, 1 to David (the driver) and many mosquitoes shepherded out the windows! Our last 172km of dirt road passed all too quickly and we hit the highway with a tailwind to push us south.

It was a day of highs and lows. Cathy got news that a couple of little patients had passed away. We had planned to stop at the Devils Marbles for the night but with the change to stormy weather pushed on to Ti Tree and got a motel room for the night.