MULOORINA STATION TO POOTNOURA CREEK
We awoke at Muloorina to an almost refreshing breeze, signs of distant lightening and a few barely existent raindrops. Breakfast and our usual photography session were a joy with the rising sun and awakening bird life.
The trip into Marree for fuel was uneventful and pleasant.
Mutonia Sculptures at Callanna.
Travelling north along the Oodnadatta Track to William Creek was
familiar but with evidence of rising wind and blown dust on the horizon.
Our first and hopefully only puncture for the trip. (John normally wears a hat when in the sun. The puncture was found while changing drivers hence the lack here. The matter was rectified after this picture was taken.)
A female station owner?
The formidable "Molly Braeden" of Todmorden, out from Oodnadatta, remains a memory from John's childhood.
Somehow we had never travelled the road from William Creek to Coober Pedy. The eastern half mostly follows a broad creek bed through sandhill country.
We even discovered "John's Bore".
Lake Cadibarrawirracanna was a must for us to visit, just a few kilometres off the road and beautiful - well deserving of the song by Rolf Harris..
Henry and John at Lake Cadibarrawirracanna.
By Coober Pedy we had decided that the day had been long enough and we would use a motel, only to find the town fully booked out.
We gave up and decided to continue on to Cadney Park as a suitable place to camp. We soon realised why Coober Pedy was booked out - the "Solar Challenge" cars were on the road with many of them arrriving at Coober Pedy that night.
Tiredness was forgotten as we spotted and photographed the cars and their teams along the highway.
Our day ended happily, realising another dream of John's - to camp at a spot by the
highway that he has noted over many years but never used - Pootnoura
Creek.
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