​April 29, 2017 We are in fly - and caterpillar - country!

This is one of the many nests of the hairy caterpillar of the bag shelter moth.
They build these quite large nests mainly in acacia trees in arid regions of Oz..

So out have come the fly nets for our hats - we look very fetching! But they're effective.

The clouds have been an ever changing story all day.

We're in big sky country and I have been watching the clouds and of course the sunsets. First up this morning the sky was filled with Popcorn clouds but that changed as we went along till they looked like they were smudged or bleeding like water colour paint on wet paper. The blues are endless in more ways than one and at the end of the day deepen to green, bruise purple and finally deep dark indigo.

Island Lagoon not far from the turn off to Woomera. It is just one of the many lakes
albeit not always filled with water. The sky was beautiful.

We had seen a couple of old Land Rovers on the road and also at Woomera. Got me wondering if there was a rally somewhere. But no I discovered that they were part of a group of 6 vehicles heading for Coober Pedy and then on to do 2 weeks driving in the amazing remote deserts of SA with none other than Connie Beadell (Len Beadell's daughter).

Len Beadell did his surveying and road building work in a trusty Land Rover.
I highly recommend reading his books to those of you interested in the central inland deserts.

I simply have to do that trip, if possible with Connie, because one of the things on my bucket list is to drive the Heather highway so named, after another daughter, by Len Beadell who surveyed and then led the team that built a number of the roads through scrub and salt pans in that remote part of Oz. To make it just that more compelling the hwy is in the Gibson Desert (I am a Gibson). Too good not to do you'd agree!