Onwards to Tennant Creek

Today was one of our longer journeys being 353 Kilometres from Dunmarra Roadhouse to Tennant Creek. This was a fairly lengthy journey (by our standards) as it was longer than usual, and we lost some time overtaking the solar cars and their entourage. Because of a couple of stops we made along the way, we had to pass the same solar car and it’s support convoy 3 times. The car was travelling just above 80 Km/h, but travelling at 90 Km/h and pulling a caravan wasn’t easy going!

After arriving at Tennant Creek and settling into our overnight accommodation, we went into town to re-stock our supplies and spend a relaxing night before heading out again tomorrow. For those of you that know the area, we decided to go past the Barkly Highway junction onto Tennant Creek as we have heard from numerous sources that the fuel is up to 30 cents per litre cheaper than the roadhouse (called Three Ways). At 56 litres of fuel, that represents a saving of over $15.00 so is well worth the extra 48 Kilometres of travel.