19/8/11 Timber Creek NT to the Western Australia border

The big red escarpments continue beyond Timber Creek.  From a distance they look like an iron ore  train with never ending carriages curling around the top of the mountains.

We have entered boab country. Gerd started to scan every tree for low down seed pods.  The aboriginal people collect these seeds and carve them.

Before crossing into Western Australia we ate salad sandwiches and our last 2 apples because you aren't allowed to take any fruit or vegetables across the border. The border inspector was a slim young lady. She was very thorough. Although the hood was still down she climbed right inside the camper and opened all the cupboard doors and shook the plastic containers to see what was inside. Last time when we crossed into WA the inspector was a big fat man and he found it much more difficult to climb inside the closed down van. We passed the inspection and so we entered the promised land!

Immediately up the road was a very photogenic barren hillside.