ARMSTRONGS ADVENTURES: Day 27-31 Ayres Rock-Gunbarrel Highway

Spent a couple of days at Ayres Rock , it is amazing , had bottle of wine and nibbles while watching the sun set over the rock. We then set off on the great central road towards Warrakurna, where we plan to spend the first night. We visited the Giles weather station and saw the grader that was used to grade the famous Gunbarrel Highway. While at Warrakurna we met a couple from Victogia and we started chatting and found out that they also wanted to travel the Gunbarrel Highway but didn't want to go alone so we decided to travel together.
The next morning we went to the Giles weather station to watch the launching of the weather balloon, then it was off down the Great central road to Warburton where we fueled up and headed up the Heather highway, we were not far along when we decided to let our tyres down some more as the road condition deteriorated considerably. The going was very slow but we made it to the start of the Gunbarrel highway.
The Gunbarrel Highway is easily Len Beadell's most famous road. He and his road construction party built this road during the mid to late fifties, creating the first inland road link between western and central Australia.
The Gunbarrel was one of a network of roads Len surveyed and built as part of the Woomera Rocket Range Project. A replica of Len Beadell's theodolite and a memorial to Len are atop Mt Beadell.
From here we thought things would improve, but they didn't , the corrugations were quite bad as well as the washaways. We camped our first night at Camp Beadell, after a long day, we got in just on dark and we lit our camp fire and got to know our travel friends a little better.
The next camp was Geraldton Bore , the water here was really good , we could use it to clean up and cook , this night we decided to have a baked dinner. Yum!
We were enjoying the drive as slow as it was, so many things to explore. Our next camp was at Carnegie Station, this is a cattle station set on about 1.5 million acres running jointly with neighbouring station Wongawol which is 3 million acres.
They were running near the end of muster so the station was busy,but campground manager, Mary, still found time to sit down and chat to us about the day to day runnings of the station.
The next morning we fueled up at the station at $2.70 per litre and headed of on what was our last days travelling with Rod and Lisbeth. We had also picked up another travelling companion,Lou.