Gem Tree

We drove down the Stuart Highway south from the Devils Marbles and ended up in Ti-Tree. The weather was terrible with rain all the way and the roads flooded every 20 Kay or so. We decided to spend a couple of nights in Ti-Tree to wait out the weather. Two days later and a glimmer of sunshine greeted us in the morning and we decided to go. As we were packing up and preparing to leave the clouds rolled in and started to rain again, push on we thought. We stopped in at Barrow Creek Road House then at Aileron another road house alongside the Stuart. Aileron had these massive aboriginal sculptures in the town including one on top of the hill that frames the road house.

We travelled 125 Kays down the road to the Gem Tree turn off. This is where we would have come out if we were able to take the Plenty Highway from Boulia to here but, the road was impassable due to the rain. Gem Tree is at the end of the Plenty traveling west, it's a sealed section of road that ends here and the rest of the Plenty is dirt.

Gem Tree is cool......we arrived with the whole place to ourselves as the tourist season has not yet started. We went for a walk on a track around the property prepared by the owners for about 4 Kay and saw the sights. There are heaps of those little black ants on the track and if you stopped your feet would be black in 10 seconds. Good walk all the same. We finished the walk with a dip at the causeway just outside Gem Tree as the river was flowing quite well due to the rains. Excellent way to end a walk!! The weather here has been good with sunshine and a few clouds, as I write this the clouds are building up to have another rain. It's good to feel sunshine on our skins after the rain out here!!

Onto Alice Springs next, it's just 80 kay down the road from Gem Tree turn off.