NORTHING DAY 02 - FRIDAY 01 JUNE 2018

ALONG THE OODNADATTA TRACK

Lake Eyre South (no water from the northern wet yet).

 

Curdimurka was venue for a big Royal Flying Doctor service fund-raising ball, for some years.
 

 On to the mound springs.

 

The Bubbler

 
Blanche Cup

A lone cyclist on the track.

 Kewson Hill (one of the many sites of Seven Sisters dreaming).

Old Beresford railway dam.

Red sandhill country (Irrapatana and another "Big Red"- almost as impressive as the Birdsville version).

Mesa landforms with glistening from mica.. We noted interpretative signs along the track about the current program to conserve our mesas. (We seem to get some things right although tyre marks suggest continuing abuse by irresponsible 4WD-ing.)

William Creek (old rail bridge and the famous/infamous pub).

 Duff Creek,

 Historical relics along the track.

Old fettler cottages at Peake ruins.

A great camp at Algebuckina Waterhole on Allendale Station.

NORTHING DAY 01 - THURSDAY 31 MAY 2018

So far our travels have been away from internet access so we have not been able to maintaing the blog. Here we are now in Darwin and 13 days into the trip catching up.

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.

NORTHING

Where else? We'll post shots and travel news as we are able.