It had been very cold again overnight and we took a while getting up and moving this morning, we took so long we ended up being the last people out of the motor camp. However it was still only 9.30am so it wasn’t that bad. We are now off to the Rock and there is a certain amount of excitement … Continue reading →
Waking up in the hotel and having a shower and breakfast in the warmth was a treat and our publican gave us the key to the museum across the road from the hotel so we wandered over the road to have a look around. The morning was warm, the wind had died and the flies had forgotten to get up … Continue reading →
Today we head off to the tiny whistle-stop of Oodnadatta on the Oodnadatta Track. We have about 50 kilometres to do to get to Marree and then we will turn onto the Oodnadatta track. We are just in the process of breaking camp when one of the grey nomads who has a caravan here came over looking for a set of … Continue reading →
We were up reasonably early and we both wandered off for our showers. The morning was freezing and everybody even the rally blokes had their beanies pulled tight down over their ears. They were standing around their brightly painted cars sipping from steaming hot coffee mugs instead of the frosty tubes of beer their drink yesterday afternoon. Conversations were a mixture … Continue reading →
Today was a down day, time to get familiar with our surrounds at Birdsville and do some washing, stock up on things we had run out of or were likely to run out of, as from here we are travelling down the Birdsville Track and the Oodnadatta track on our way to Ayer’s Rock. After we had lunch we walked … Continue reading →
