Pure Beauty, As Fluffy White Clouds Are Reflected In This Crystal Clear Lake In Remote Australia

Описание: It stopped us in our tracks! Stunning! The lake which thought it was sky! You may also like: Road Train Remote Australia Dust    • Road Train In Remote Australia Leaves Dust...  

600 kms North West of Alice Springs. We'd passed no vehicles in the last 300+ kms. We came across this beautiful lake 20 kms before Rabbit Flat. A break in our journey - relaxation, peace, meditation! We just had to stop there. So amazing! I got out my Iphone S4 and took these shots. It was a perfectly still day with hardly a puff of air. The surface of the lake was completely smooth, like glass without a ripple.

For us, driving up the Tanami Highway in Central Australia is all in a day's work. It's a long drive from Alice Springs to Balgo (Wirrimanu) Aboriginal Community. More times than not the vehicle gets a flat tyre! I hope that this video captures the beauty of Central Australia.

In the winter (or Dry Season in Halls Creek at the top of the Tanami at the Southern edges of the Kimberleys) the Tanami Highway is full of four wheel drives from down South. It's great that tourist can experience this country. Although we live here we never take the outback for granted. We leave Alice Springs - always well prepared. We take at least two spare tyres. We take at least a jerry can of water. Even in summer I take something warm to wear just in case rain comes and the temperate plummets for a day or so. Normally, in summer, its around the 40C mark but when rain comes or a NW Cloud Band the temperate can get quite chilly.... even in summer it can drop below 20C.

Last trip, just before Christmas, the Tanami Highway was in really good condition. But this time, rain North of Yuendumu had affected the road significantly. On the Northern Territory side there were a couple of road teams working on the highway.... grading out all the wheel ruts, potholes and corrugations. In places, our 4WD felt like it was going to shake itself to bits on the corrugations!

The drive from Alice Springs to Balgo is just under 850 kms one way. It usually takes around 10 hours to do (without rushing and having a good lunch break). It is interesting to go past the Newmont mines - like the Granites - and to see the huge amount of work that has been done. Huge mounds of earth. Big dams.