Slept well. Slow start. Probably left about 9:30. Even so the last to leave. The caravaners are usually gone by 8:30. But then they start settling early. Anywhere between 2:00 and 4:00.
62kms to renner springs. Vero was feeling especially good. She tore down the road. With a strong tailwind we were up around the 25km per hour mark. made Renner Springs soon after 12:00.
After a swim, lazed around all afternoon. The pool at 17 metres was big for these parts.
Like most of the roadhouses Renner Springs is old with nothing done to improve facilities for a long time. Only Wauchope looks cared for.
V was the first to notice the posters up advertising that Barry Bishop is going to perform here tonight. Starts 6:30. Never heard of him, but a flyer in the pub reckons he's not a nobody. We will see.
Bigger day tomorrow. Elliot is 98kms away, but the locals are saying Elliot is trouble. Two waring factions of Aboriginals means a lot of drunkenness and fighting. Have been advised to give it a miss and ride on to the rest stop which is another 23kms on from Elliot. As there is no caravan park in Elliot, I guess we try the pub first and decide from there. It will also depend on how we are feeling.
Now it is time to wait for tea and Barry.
I like the quiet and seclusion and comfort my little tent offers.
,,,go to day 27 - June 5
P.S. Barry - blast from the past, half a century of hits - Bishop was pleasant, mostly delivering on his promise, although most of the songs are from the 50s and 60s. Entirely appropriate given the audience, sparse as it was or is. He is still going and we are off to bed. Don't understand how the economics of this works. There were maybe 9 people watching the show and I don't think any of them were doing anything they wouldn't be doing, apart from listening to Barry, if Barry wasn't performing. It is not as if they came to Renner Springs because he was performing.
Two recreational vehicles full of Chinese are staying in Renner Springs for the night. Maybe a dozen of them all together. They are fans of the Finke Desert race, who flew into Darwin and are on there way south to watch the race. Be interesting to know how they became fans.