To Newman

Sunday 26/08/12

 

On the way to Newman we pulled off the road for many road trains, but also many huge oversize vehicles with escorts – some took up more than half the road

all taking equipment to the mining areas. The road trains going the opposite way were mostly empty. Not many caravans.

A glorious day, 25 deg by 12.30 pm and not a cloud in the sky.

We passed through gibber plains

 

On one break we found some Bush Bananas – bush tucker.

A couple of flood plains as we reached further north

 

Some very tall Spinifex

 

A different fence construction for this part of the world – one hot wire, and an end post that was a hollow metal tube full of concrete.

 

The road side was lined with masses of thick blue Solanum bushes for long stretches

 And little white papery flowers

 

We saw many wildflowers that were the same as those growing at Newhaven….similar latitude, but about 800km west.
Yellow Desert Grevilleas, white Grevilleas and Turkey bush - Calytrix. Nectar from the Grevillea dripped all over my camera...Rob S will remember that.

 

 

 When we stopped to look at carpets of pink flowers,

We found that the flowers were not everlastings, but had soft petals

 

Rob spotted this little Ringtail Dragon when we went for a walk up to the look-out in Newman.