Got up and went into town as I needed to drop off some stuff and have some breakfast. The earliest cafe opens at 8am and I wanted to see the hardware store but they didn't open till 8.30am. Country hours can slow you up a bit. But it wasn't going to be a difficult walk with a lot of it on a country road so I had a couple of poached eggs and left Burra about 8.45am.
Got chased out of town by some mongrel dog that continually tried to sneak behind me to get a bite. In the end I turned and used my walking sticks to how him I could beat the shit out of him and he decided I might not be worth it. Then onto the inevitable station track through sheep paddocks and down onto Worlds End Highway. A walk along the highway until another sheep paddock then a long long gravel road. The only consolation is the pace is quicker and I got to the water tank come camp fairly early. The wind was blowing and of course there is no shelter at the camp but I can understand why they have it here as there is a free camp site down he bottom of the paddock at Burra Gorge and if the water tank was there it would be empty. So I trudged the 800 metres or so to the relative protection in the Burra Gorge camp.
Later in the afternoon a large group of 4WD's rolled up and surrounded the spot I was camped at. They were from Geelong , all young, ie no older than 25 and all on there way to Uluru to climb the rock before the closing around mid September. Apparently it is very busy out there as everyone is doing the same. I've been to the rock a couple of times, never had the inclination to climb it though. One year we were lucky to be there when a storm went through and I have videos of the waterfalls coming off the rock. The group were very quiet going to bed early as they wanted to be at Coober Pedy the next day. I was surprised the music they put on whilst they sat around the campfire was crap that I listen to. All 70 and 80's stuff like Australian Crawl, Divinyls, Cold Chisel. I didn't have to put earphones in to drown out some crap by Billie Eilish at least. Can't wait to get home to Isabelle's music.
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