LAURA TO OODNADATTA TRACK
Leaving Bwana with Michele & Peter in Adelaide, we had travelled to our "Laura home" on the Wednesday for packing "Henry 02". Target for Day 01 was to be somewhere on the Oodnadatta Track via Woomera, Roxby Downs and Andamooka on the Borefield Road.
Henry by a morning shot of one of our favourite ruins near Murraytown.
A visit to Hancocks Lookout near Horrocks Pass, since we haven't visited it in years.
What a beautiful and restful start to the trip - dozens of kangaroos on the track in.
Port Augusta - one of our favourite places.
For so many years it has been the transition from country to bush for us.
Woomera - still very much a working defence force town.
The town is now open but surrounded by prohibited areas.
Roxby Downs - an attractive, modern mining town servicing the nearby Olympic Dam mine.
Picture is of cleaners at the main motel. Some years ago we stayed here and were told how the corellas used the conical shade (left) as a slippery dip.
Eagles on the side trip to Andamooka opal mining town.
Back in the 1950 - 60s, a new graduate from Wattle Park Teachers
College used to be sent here almost every year to the "one teacher school". By 1970 there was an
Area School. Now there is a Primary School and School-Community Library
with secondary students travelling the 30 kms into the large (600+ students) Roxby Downs Area School.
Andamooka is a "place to go" from Roxby Downs when you want a special night out.
Olympic Dam has a dormitory for transit workers rather than a town.
Families live in Roxby Downs or back where the workers come from.
We knew families at Quorn whose fathers worked at Olympic Dam, leaving their families at Quorn.
The Borefield Road is owned and maintained by the mining company.
It links a whole run of bores that provide water for the mine.
Our first dingo for the trip, by the Borefield Road.
Oodnadatta Track at last.
Camp at Screechowl Creek near an old railway bridge.
Photographic fun of a colourful evening sky.
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