From Barkly Homestead we headed west and turned left at Threeways. The first (and only) town is Tennent Creek. I didn’t know much about Tennent Creek except that it was close to the middle of nowhere. We were impressed with the drive in photo op – there’s one at each end of town – easy to get confused if you’re coming or going!
We took a few silly photos…
Then drove through town… and what I learned about Tennent Creek is that it has a lovely IGA – this pic below is the colourful side of the building.
Off to the Devil’s Marbles we go…
About 50kms short of the Marbles there is a 4WD track that heads out to Kunjarra (The Pebbles). We learned that this is where the local Waramungu women came to dance, meet and conduct ceremony. We also read that the round boulders (both the Pebbles and the Marbles) are believed to be the fossilised eggs of the Rainbow Serpent. Very interesting, but note it is a round trip of 16.4kms of corrugated road to get to the Pebbles.
Onto Karlu Karlu (Devils Marbles) – meaning round boulders. These are fascinating and it’s hard to believe that they did not simply drop from the sky in their current form, but apparently the marbles were originally a cubic compartment in a mass of granite. Weathering and erosion have rounded the edges… there is SO much more information to these stones, so click on the link if you’d like to learn more.
Me practicing my ‘hard cheese’ look for photos. Getting pretty good. It was really cold this day.
The caravan park at the Marbles and at the Devils Marbles Hotel were all booked out, so we searched for a free camp in the area… but luckily we popped into the hotel to get some take away beers and asked the lovely lady behind the bar… she said “why don’t you just park out the front of the pub for free? You can use our showers and everything.” So that was camping sorted. We had an amazing dinner there as well and met a couple of fellow travellers.
One lady had her dog Lily with her… she took a liking to us immediately and plonked herself down under Deb’s feet.
We had been told that the best time to see the marbles was at sunrise and sunset for the different light. We headed back there first thing the next morning – but the sky was full of cloud… still pretty, but things looked a little different.
And we finished our visit with a little photography hi jinx, cause why not?
That’s enough, come on, move on.
Some of those pebbles, look like the biggest doogs yet🤣