Hotting up

As we are travelling further north temperatures are getting hotter and hotter. Heat of the day is from 9am until 5pm and Pete is usually sunburnt by 8.30am! It regularly reaches 40C in the day and hasn't got below 20C at night for days.

From Exmouth we headed inland and stopped after a couple of hours for lunch. We parked in a breezy shady spot, but it was too hot for us to get out of the air conditioned car! The breeze was like standing under a hot hair dryer! That night we camped for free in a rest area at the side of the road, it was the first place you were allowed to have campfires, so we lit one, but were inundated with bugs as we were the only light source for miles around. It was too hot for any grass to grow, so we camped straight on the rocky ground which had absorbed all the suns heat. It was like sleeping on a hot plate, we got no sleep at all and left early the next morning. 

We camped in Tom Price for 2 nights. It was still hot, but camping on grass made night times much more comfortable.