242. At the end of the road, teenagers disturb sleepers.

Stephen on the Barkly Hwy crossing into NT

The Barkly Highway 

Ends when it meets the Stuart Highway

At Three Ways.

Our camp site.

The roadhouse

Accommodates our thirst.

Age seems no concern.

It’s late, dark, we stagger

The short distance to camp.

Something trips us,

Fall, roll, rumble, giggle.

Next morning, complaint –

Drunken teenagers jumping on sleepers.

The Barkly Hwy: Cloncurry (A), Mt Isa (B), Camooweal(C), Three Ways(D)