Sunday, January 15, 2006

day 6: Devil's Marbles Km 3062

Went to try to find a swag: this is a typical Australian sleeping bag/mattress/tent all in one cause I am fed up with putting up & down my tent: it takes 20 minutes to put up, 15 to put down. The swag is a 1 minute-up-&-down stuff... Practical when I have to do that almost every night!
Well, I did not realize it was Sunday and all the camping shops are closed today... so I decided to take the road heading North.

On the way, there are the Devil's Marble: For the non interested-rocky related stuff, skip the boring reading (usually, I skip it, myself...): Nice little rock formations that I will try to explain with my limited geology-newbie-knowledge: a long, long time ago, there was a very big rock (granite) underground that started to have cracks that got wider due to infiltrating rain water. This big granite rock was therefore split into small ones (parallelepiped shape). With geological rock moves, these small blocks came up in the open air and stated to get eroded by wind/rain. Today, these have turned into what you can see on the pictures...

After having taken a few pictures, heading back for the car, I realised that I lost my car keys... I was already seeing myself stuck there for the night... Well, I went back on my steps a couple of time (30-meter circle around the Marbles), Just could not find them! That was when I asked these 2 guys, like in case they would see my keys... Well they happen to be Swiss French-speaking. Very helpfully, they stared looking for the key that we found half an hour later 2 meter-away from the car. As it started to get dark, I decided to camp there.
Thanks again Xavier & Vincent!

Sunset at the Devil's Marbles


Devil's Peebles

Fuel pump in a ghost city

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ziva t'as eu chaud !

6:37 am  

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