Day 84 | Duff Creek is pretty quiet: time for a decent conflagration

70 km | Heading west total: 3,090 km

There’s a primordial link between blokes and fires.

I hadn’t bothered with them because I had my little cooker which required minimal effort in setting up and packing away. But I haven’t been able to pick up fuel since Burra and stocks are low and tonight I’ve had to revert to that more primeval method of cooking. Wood is plentiful and the mulga makes fantastic embers.

The pyromania gene must be slotted on the Y chromosome.