Eager Beaver goes to the Real Centre

  The Eager Beaver goes to The Real Centre           1 997 To check out the C of G of our continent . 2700nm, 5000km What a secure feeling! Waking up from a peaceful sleep on that solid red earth, next to Central Mt. Stuart, at the very center* of the Australian continent. I have some concerns  about the stability of this continent, which well go into later, so it sure is comforting to be  right at the very middle of it. * Central Mt. Stuart is 110nm north of Alice Springs. This is the 'geographical centre' of  Australia, as determined by that excellent explorer, McDouall Stuart in 1860. Modern day  surveying now puts that point farther south, but I wanted to see what Stuart saw…... I was still 'high' from the excitement of landing in this little clearing yesterday afternoon.  Outlandings in the bush are always risky, despite what I've written before - "… every clay   pan is a landing strip...". "  I should have added, "…an d every one is also a