Mon, 28th March, 2022 Camp by Edith River, south of Pine Creek, NT

7am 25 degrees - lovely and cool. Clear sky.

I gave the camper a clean after the bug invasion last night.

Got out the washing machine as we can use the creek water to wash everything. Steve filled up the buckets for me.

We poured the used water well away from the creek. 

Steve put up the washing line and I found a forked stick to help support it.

Steve also used some to wash the red dirt off the back of the camper.

As we are parked in the shade Steve got out the solar blanket to put some more charge in the batteries.

Time for a cool off - the creek water actually feels warm so it is nicer to stand under the shower - getting back to nature and we are doing the washing today!! Not to self - don't let Steve get hold of the camera - lucky I can delete them!

Lunch time and all the washing is dried and put away.

Clouds are building again. Relaxing afternoon.

I had put a silverside in the Ecopot so Steve did the vegies in the camp oven. Steve had put two lights in the trees to try and lure the bugs away from the camper and we stayed outside fighting off a few mozzies and then the bugs still came and annoyed us but not in the plague numbers that are buzzing around the light.

Spotted a few stars through the clouds then one very fast bright satellite zoomed over us. I checked my star app and it showed the space station was on the other side so it wasn’t that. Spotted a couple of freshwater prawns (good barra bait) and a small eel tailed catfish with the torch in the shallows. 

We had a cuppa then went inside with the lights off for our shower and then early to bed as we will get up early to drive into Edith Falls tomorrow.