Devil's Marbles, 5th Sepember 2007

The car seems fine this morning, so we drove to the Devil's Marbles 200km to the north. These are rock formations that are rounded stones balancing on top of each other. A sacred site for the Aboriginals. They believed that the rocks had secret people that if a child was left there to play on their own the people would come out of the rocks and pull the child in to the ground under the rocks. The rocks are various sizes from small stones to 3-4 meters wide. We walked around the rocks and took some great photos. We had a cup of tea and did some more walking across the road to see more of them. After that we had a big drive north, about 270km to Rinner Springs roadhouse. Its is just a service station with a camp ground. We got there to find it a bit disappointing to find a rubbish site and toilets that looked like they were going to fall down. Couldn't go further as its about other 150km. About 2 hours driving! And they charged us more than most sites we've stayed at. So we're telling everyone we meet heading that way, not to stop as there are better sites before and after Renner Springs. We got chatting to a younger couple, one English and the other German. They had been working in Alice for about 4 months and glad to be moving again.