Day 45 - Water in the Desert

Water water everywhere... ...but it's falling on my head so I can't drink it. Although we did try and open our mouths as we went along!

The morning was WINDY. Our old nemesis back whipping across the plains and making progress absolutely brutal to achieve, despite the track actually being pretty good.

It was flat. It was empty. It was windy. Then it started raining. In the desert. To be honest that actually made it better as the wind dropped a bit and then rain wasn't hard or set in. We worried we'd get clogged, but the air and ground are so dry the surface was drying almost immediately between the showers, so we were able to continue.

It started pouring just as we were thinking about stopping, so we pitched as fast as we could. Sadly it wasn't fast enough as the inner tent was soaked, but we towelled it off enough to be workable and got to eating.

We got some "free" water via careful placement of vesicles under the corners of the tent where it drips off. This proved remarkably effective. Like 2.5 litres of water effective!!! It has the same satisfying feeling as using a solar panel to charge your phone.

It's going to be a wet night with everything soaked to start with, but luckily we're in a place with great drying weather for tomorrow, that's if the footprints we made in the mud in the porch don't overflow and the door stays uncollapsed... Food spend today: 0 euros