Friday 20 July 2012

Lake Eyre

Oodnadatta Track is close to the southern end of Lake Eyre, easy to see and check out close up as you can see!

Just south of William Creek is the turnoff to Halligan Bay, about 60km of corrugated road at 25kph! Took ages to get there.

Camped on the sandhills just above Lake Eyre - first night in the tent! Another spot nearby called ABC Bay, barren, red rock landscape, could be on another planet! 



Rain overnight, no leaks in the tent but boggy patches on the track back out to William Creek.

Then on to Oodnadatta for the night, camping on the gravel of the so called caravan park behind the Pink Roadhouse - painted bright pink!









On to  Alice Springs next. Always good to be in Alice, couple of good coffee spots to visit along with viewing some local art and making sure we are stocked for the Tanami Track.

Has been very cold at night and at sun up but sun soon warms everything and the daytime temp is just superb and warm at 22deg.