Day 2 | Simpsons Gap: been here a few times in recent months

Awoke with a big double rainbow over the tent.

Found it hard to move the limbs even after the longest sleep in living memory.

Blisters: don’t look much better. They might have expanded.

If it was supposed to reach 38º C, I’m sure it dropped a few degrees short. In a few spots, there was a nice breeze; I’m not complaining.

I would describe my walk as a trudge, however, 14 days’ food, less one, is a fair weight. My pack felt like a brick rather than that back-hugging, tapering job I was contemplating back at the Lone Dingo camping store in Alice.

Only 10 km today, but, as usual, there were a few diversions. I headed up Wallaby Gap, no wallabies spotted, and to the narrower Scorpion Pool, no scorpions seen, actually not much of a pool either.

Nice walking, but lugging this load, I’m taking my time.

No hurry.

No hurry at all.