Day 10 – 12 Aug

You never know when you may need a helping hand out here… I didn’t quite get the departure checklist right at Murputja and left one of our laptops at the school. Kenmore park is about 400km from Murputja and getting the laptop back meant that we would need to back track (an 800km round trip) and this would cause significant slippage in the schedule (PM speak). I decided to press my luck and call the cops out at Murputja to see if they were heading our way. Fortunately, Rob, the duty Sergeant, was scheduled to run a court session out at Ernabella, which was only 35km from where we were and he kindly offered to bring the laptop out for me. The work at Kenmore Park went well. All of the community (including the kids) was at a funeral and Sorry Camp down in Yatala and so the school was empty except for the teachers. We finished up at Kenmore Park and headed east for 300km and out of the APY lands and back onto the Stuart Hwy to Marla. We got accommodation at the Marla road house as we did several days ago and had a nice relaxing wind down. Back to civilization of sorts with a bit of TV and a public phone. The 3G even works here…