Day 300 | Simpson's Gap: been here a few times in recent months

Larapinta Day 2

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, might have expanded.

If it was supposed to reach 38ยบ 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 day’s food, less one, is a fair weight, the pack a brick rather than that back hugging, tapering job I was contemplating back at the Lone Dingo camping store.

Only 10km 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 either, actually not much of a pool either.

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

No hurry.