NORTHING DAY 03 - SUNDAY 02 JUNE 2018

OODNADATTA AND NORTHWARDS

 Algebuckina waterhole at dawn.

  At Algebuckina Bridge.John remembers riding on a "quad" like this with a group of friends, one of whom had a fettler fathers.

 Country south of Oodnadatta.

 North Creek - a camping spot to remember if/when we pass this way again.

 The "Pink Roadhouse" - sadly without Adam and Lynnie Plate, but with a new owner who still useses Adam's mudmap of the track.

John wanted to check out his childhood memories, especially those recalled in the poem that he has recently written about his experience of Oodnadatta as a child. https://jowileystuff.blogspot.com/

 Hookeys Hole - just out of town - a remembered picnic spot.

 

The old school - one teacher and maybe 20 students (Mostly "segregated" at that time. The mission ran its own school for most of the children in their care.)

 

 The railway station is kept as a museum. The old goods shed was quite notable but has been sold and removed in recent years.

The oemetery and the sand hills.

Pretty well the only reminder of the mission - placed under the "Bringing Them Home" program in 2007. John brought Ruth and Joan back to Oodnadatta to particiate in this revisiting trip arranged by the late Mona Tur (one of the children from Oodnadatta).

Corner post on the old overland telegraph line.

Fogartys Claypan.

Through Hamilton Station.

To Eringa Waterhole - passed some years ago and remembered as a "must" for a future camp.