Wednesday 20 June 2012 Taylor Creek to Stuart Monument Rest Area (via Wycliffe Well / Devils Marbles / Tennant Creek)

Trip Meter Reading Start – 3647            Trip Meter Reading Finish – 3905

Total Km Travelled – 258 km

Fuel Costs & Consumption

Fill up Tennant Creek
Gas $1.12/l 64.87 litres $72.98; Petrol $1.68/l 29.26 litres $49.00

Comments -  Luke Baker

We called into Wycliffe Well where a alien sighting has occurred.  There were lots of interesting articles and interesting characters.  Along the road we saw thousands of termite nests approxmanatily 2 metres high.  We stopped for the night at a free roadside camp.

Comments Mum and Dad

Our free camp was a short 109kms from the Devils Marbles.  The marbles were formed 500 million years ago when the earth was pushed upwards; this was 100 million years before the aborigines; over the years the constant weathering gave the granite rock its multiple round formations.  The formation of the rocks and the red colours stand out against the sky which seems so much bigger out here.
Tennant Creek has a large aboriginal population; there just seems like there is nothing for these poor people to do; many appear out around the streets sitting under shade.  Opal fuel replaces unleaded petrol to reduce petrol sniffing.  In some communities, such as this unleaded petrol is illegal.