Gismo Queen and her King

Day 34 - Music in the Mulga

Red dirt - it’s the iconic image of the outback, the colour of popular desert photos, and synonymous with central Australia. Little do they realise that it also infiltrates EVERYTHING! You can sweep and dust but it is so fine that it’s on the floor, in the shower, on benches, on skin and just gets blown around more whenever the wind picks up or a vehicle goes past. But hey, we are in the outback. Which means it is also cold at night - the inside of the van was 10C this morning so the diesel heater came on before we did anything. But by the time the sun had some bite to it, we were sitting outside enjoying it. Because we had roasted so much pumpkin the other day, I chose to make some pumpkin scones for elevenses. Did another walk around this mini city and introduced myself to another Sunland owner. By lunchtime, Greg and I headed to the entertainment area to check out the merchandise and see the new vendors who had set up. We both bought some Music in the Mulga attire as this is part of the fundraising efforts. We also got ourselves some lunch (to save me cooking/preparing) and make it worthwhile for the vendors. They are expecting 2050 people here although that includes artists and volunteers as well.  We spent a quiet afternoon back at camp, soaking up the sun before taking our chairs to the entertainment area for tonight’s performances. Jude was very organised and pre-prepared most of our dinner (enhanced by Michele’s tomato chilli jam!) for when we got back although we were able to listen to the rest of the acts from our campsite anyway.

posted by Tracey @ 11:54 am