William's Creek

Okay. We're alive and well. There is hardly any internet access (we don't really have time) and no phone reception....if that gives you any idea of what it is like! So the blog will be slowing down here for a few weeks. Here's a few things to help you understand what William's Creek is like:

1. Our drive from Coober Pedy took about 1 1/2 hours at about 60 miles an hour in a four wheel drive car. The landscape was sand dunes with sparse shrubbery. The sand is a beautiful red. Tara spotted a mob of Kangaroos (a lot of time you don't see them in the wild). There was a male with his harem and a joey!!! There were broken cars (some of them 40 years old!) and some tragic stories of the people who lost their lives walking in the heat after breaking down. We saw the longest man made structure...a dingo fence...over 9,000 km when it was at it's largest...now 5,000 km (if I remember Merv correctly).

2. Here's what you see when you pull into W.C.: On the left...campground, pub/dining room/kitchen/staff quarters, cabins, small airstrip and on the right....more campground, cabins, piolet's office, and house for the owners....and that's it!!! Takes about three minutes to walk. Tara said it best when she said looking out to the desert you feel like you're looking at the ocean...it's unending and you feel so small.

3. Tara and I laugh often because we feel like God is either punishing us for not wanting to be housewives either/or preparing us to be housewives. We are a stange mix of Little House on the Prairie women/Cinderella. Our duties so far include but are not limited to: Cooking, busing tables, waitressing, bartending, working the till, laundary (hanging it up too...no dryer!), housekeeping, moping, dusting, stocking.....and the list grows!!! We start our days by 7:30 or so and end them around 9:30...then we all sit down and have a drink. We also dance (the to Outback country western with the owner and other staff member and the two French girls we work with). Then we fall into bed...sometimes we read aloud to each other first...and then do it all over again!!!

4. It's waaaayyyy cold in the desert at night!!!!!!!!!

5. Last night, we went out to visit our friends Russ and Roz who are walking from Darwin to Melbourne with camels to raise money for kids with cancer....it will take them 8 months in all. We ate camel meat with them over the fire, traded stories, petted their pet camels (weird that we ate camel too but soooo good), and gazed at the most dramatic starry sky....nothing to tarnish that sky. We got home at 2 in the morning and woke up our boss...oooppppsss...at least we joked about it (kind of) in the morning.