February 7th Thursday. Today we had to be up and packed in time for 7am which was a bit of a struggle, but we had free pancakes as an incentive for breakfast, Pancakes go especially well with peanut butter believe it or not... Between 7:30 and 9:30 nothing of any consequence happened really, we had a few more talks on road (sand) safety and various dingo warnings etc. We were given our food and camping stuff and packed it onto the roof of our 4x4. 'We' being the 5 groups of 11 people in each. In our group are Me, Sarah, Rob, the eldest at about 26, he was a manager at Shell before leaving to travel, Then there was Laura, a quite loud but friendly Irish girl who likes beer, she's about 23, Abi was
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