Tenant Creek & heading north

We have complained a bit about the heat but we are getting soft you know. Up early after a crap night sleep but on the road by 7:00am and a tail wind today. It’s party Friday today so we are chirpy and off to Tenant creek or is that “Ten Ant” creek. Tina hasn’t been here for 20 years either but I don’t think it has changed.
We hit Three Ways where you stop heading west and can turn South to Adelaide or North to Darwin. Its 994km to Darwin and after fuelling up we are off. The run is good and the odd cloud makes driving good. This lasts until about 10:00am when surprise, surprise it’s hot. It has rained at Eliot and you can feel the increased humidity which actually makes it feel cooler. Our goal is Daly Waters and we arrive just after lunch. A powered site means on with the A/C and they have a pool where a couple of beers and a swim makes everything OK again.
We probably don’t talk about the wildlife enough because I suppose we are just used to it and only rave on about the road kill, but there isn’t anything much we haven’t seen lately. Sad really but we do really appreciate it and we marvel at everything we still see. In the last couple of days we have seen so many huge Eagles on the side of the road they are so spectacular.
Funny about wildlife but today in the pool some Male French tourists jumped in soon after startled by the water bugs, he said “what are they?” I said “I don’t know Australia is full of bugs, but they don’t bite”. He jumped out not satisfied by this. His mate had a little more trouble realising his pants were see through once wet. With Tina in the Pool he called a mate to bring over a towel, I suggested if just gave it a fluff he could jump out.
Back to the van where the A/C has made it quite cool. After dark we sit around and call up some family & friends and enjoy a nice steak on the BBQ.