ANDAMOOKA - LAKE HART

We both slept reasonably well last night but were woken early this morning when Royce rolled over in bed and promptly started another nose-bleed!  Finally got that to settle, cleaned up all the blood and mess and sat outside having a cuppa.  Blue sky this morning and looks like it could be a nice day but after seeing all the ants on the ground outside the caravan and the swarms of flying ants sheltering under our awning we decided we were going to leave.  The flying ants were getting in our hair, ears, nose, eyes etc! Packed everything up and took off.  We thought we would have a look at Roxby Downs but ended up just doing a short drive through and didn't really see anything of interest.  We drove through to Pimba and filled up with diesel (165.9c/l) then headed off to Lake Hart.  We weren't too sure whether we would stop at Lake Hart because it is normally pretty busy but it was about 4.15pm by the time we got there (we were a bit late leaving Andamooka) so we decided to stay.  Luckily we found a reasonably level spot and set up camp.  The place is pretty full and some people who came in later have had to go on to other areas.  We met the people in the caravan next door and chatted for a while with them.  They are on their way to Darwin as well.  We tried out the Weber Baby Q tonight to cook up chops, snags and onions and they turned out well.  We hadn't used the Weber before but I think we will get a lot of use out of it.
As usual, a beautiful sunset at Lake Hart - see picture.  We think we might stay put here for at least 2 nights and perhaps a 3rd night (if the flies aren't too bad during the day) and then move on to Coober Pedy.
We saw a bit of wildlife today - on the road into Roxby Downs a blue tongue lizard was crossing in front of us.  We slowed right down and stopped next to him.  He promptly turned around and hissed and opened his mouth at me!  We left him alone and moved on.  After leaving Pimba there was a flock (?) of emus about to cross the road but they changed their mind and headed in the opposite direction.  They were right by the road and there was about 8 or 9 of them.