May 20th: Edith Falls to Manbulloo Homestead, Katherine – 76.16 km
Day 219
Food! Oh how we stocked up! 4 bags of pasta, sauce, baked beans, onions, oatmeal, muesli, sausage, salad, sugar, coffee, and bread, all the necessities and more. We barely noticed anything else on our ride into town. The magnetism of the supermarket pulling at our empty steel bellies dragged us in. We felt as if we were hardly peddling, until we realized that we never intended to carry this much groceries in our panniers and had to carry it to our campsite.
We intended to stay just out of town at a place called Springvale, but when we got there it was closed. Hoping that the out of town camp site, Manbulloo Homestead, wouldn’t be closed nor overpriced we pressed on for another 10 km into the setting sun. We were not dissapointed. We pitched our tent along a field filled with cows and horses and took hot hot showers. We both immediatlely agreed to take a rest day there.
