Farina to William Creek via Marree
It has been a long time since I have seen a house sparrow that I was surprised to find them in the camp ground at Farina, obviously a left over from the old township.
A plaque to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Stuart’s exploration of the centre.
There was no sign to say what motivated this sculpture. It was very well done with a few simple rocks.
Below the rail line at Marree
See if you can find the grasshopper in this photo.
The famous Marree Hotel – it is really nicely fitted out inside and has a large photographic museum to Tom Kruse – Mailman of the Outback.
One of the mail trucks on display at the outdoor museum.
The Marree railway platform – highly unlikely you would ever get wet.
The Lake Eyre Yacht Club. They even have a jetty to tie your boat up to.
All roads are open. There is still some water lying around after last weeks rain.
We stopped at this abandoned railway siding for lunch.
The view south looking down the old Ghan railway line.
We are definitely back in the desert.
In the middle of no where, we came across this sculpture park. These statues reminded me of the robots from “Total Recall”. Very life like.
A view of Lake Eyre South – from a viewing point. Lake Eyre South is much smaller than Lake Eyre North. I had only ever heard it referred to as Lake Eyre and nothing about there being a North and South Lake -
I could see what looked like islands or maybe mirages.
Lots of signs about not driving past this point, but by the tyre marks several people have tried to drive on the lake.
The Oodnadatta Track – we have been lucky again and the grader has just been through. Lovely smooth road.
We will be coming back this way from William Creek to Marree so will be able to stop off a few more places like Coward Springs on our way back.
William Creek Caravan Park – very basic indeed – won’t be camping there on our way back through. Large flocks of noisy Corella’s. I am surprised that they allow them to nest there as they would be a real danger to their aircraft with all the take off and landings for Lake Eyre. A sausage roll at $7.50 – that’s almost as good as the $24 hamburger in WA. The one hour flight was $285 and was just over Lake Eyre – it didn’t interest me to look at white salt for an hour. If you wanted to see the Painted Hills you had to take the two hour flight at $425.
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