Tennant Creek

We got to Mt Isa last night then set out early to get to Tennant Creek. One tyre on the Navara was a pound under pressure when I checked it, so after filling up the diesel tank at the Shell servo, I looked for the air line. "Its Broke" said the check-out chic," Try the BP up the road, or the Mobil, or the truck stop". The truck stop was miles away, the Mobil went out of  business last month and the BP had an airline but no pressure gauge. I managed to blow up the tyre and checked it with my own gauge, then left Mt Isa and set of across the Barkly later than we intended. The pic shows the four of us at the Barkly Homestead where we stopped for lunch. Having traveled across the Barkly during my Telstra days, I expected to be traveling in near desert conditions, but the last few years have been wet so it was like traveling through park lands, with lots of thick undergrowth, green trees and shrubs with lots of spring flowers.
We got to Three Ways (where Tennant Creek town was planned to be in the 1860s, but the beer wagon broke an axle crossing the creek so the miners all moved down the road and set up camp where the beer was, and so the town grew there) I set up the van in the van park, and I noticed a van tyre was wearing very unevenly. Looks like I will have to get the van checked before we leave tomorrow.