Adelaide So, we finally made it to Adelaide, and what a lovely city it is. We booked into the Belair National Park Caravan Park, which is right next door to, you guessed it, Belair National Park. The drive up to the caravan park was interesting, with narrow winding roads (though nothing like Tom CAT …
Broughton Valley & Worlds End Our drive from Lake Hart to Broughton Valley led us through acres and acres of canola fields, and unlike the earlier fields we passed through, most of these were in full bloom. I don’t need to tell you how pretty they looked. It was a bit hard to find …
Lake Hart, Woomera and Andamooka Out of necessity, Adelaide is our next destination. We have car and van repairs repairs and we’ll take advantage of the big city to catch up on our regular medical check-ups. Ahh, the joys of getting old(er). 😊 But there’s still plenty to see and do on the way. …
Coober Pedy was our next destination. We had both been looking forward to this, it is another opal mining town, but bigger than Lightning Ridge and White Cliffs. In fact, the mining area of Coober Pedy is quite extensive, and still growing. The population of Coober Pedy is around 2000, and of those about …
Lambert’s Geographical Centre By the time we left Dalhousie Springs, the roads were mostly dry, our tyre pressures were lowered for more protection, both for them and us, (we were running out of fillings to shake loose 😊) and we were eager be on our way. We had been following the mud map we …
The ground was still firm underfoot, if a bit damp when we arrived. The rain was steady through the night and it continued on for two more days, until the ground turned into a veritable quagmire of sticky goo. There was no way we were going to risk towing the van in those conditions …
We may not have been able to do the Birdsville or Strzelecki Tracks but were able to experience the Oodnadatta Track. The Oodnadatta runs from Marree through Oodnadatta to Marla and is, without doubt, the worst road we have travelled anywhere to date. It has dips and crests and creek crossings, and corrugations that …
Lake Eyre After what seems like a lifetime, we finally arrived at William Creek. It’s small. It’s remote. It’s dry and dusty. It’s wonderful! We drove into town past the airstrip, the Wrightsair Scenic Tours Office, and the pub/hotel/fuel station all on one side of town. On the opposite side was the caravan park, …
It’s a relatively short drive from Muloorina to William Creek, 250 kilometres, and truth be known most people do it in one day. But why hurry? We spent the first night at Curdimurka siding a ruin at the site of an Old Ghan railway siding. Its glory days may be gone, but it still …
Now this is an oasis Sticking to our plan (I know…shock and amazement 😊) we left Marree and drove back to the Muloorina campground. I think it’s safe to say that this has to be one of our favourite campsites. Muloorina is a property that covers four thousand square kilometres. It runs cattle and …
