Homeward bound
Heading home via Woomera, Port Augusta and Mildura
using my camera more often
Heading home via Woomera, Port Augusta and Mildura
I had been to Coober Pedy a couple of other times in my travels. It is an opal mining town and usually looks deserted. That is because people live and work underground where it is cooler during the day.
William Creek is a tiny town with 6 inhabitants and a dog. It is in the middle of the largest cattle station in Australia, Anna Creek station.
We had been warned the night before that there were a few bull dust traps and we might not get the bus through. A couple of road trains had to be pulled out. Wherever there is a dangerous part of the gravel road, red flags are put on the side to warn travellers. But before we could leave William Creek we had to change a flat tyre on the bus.
I had booked this trip over a year ago, so was very lucky to be flying over the salt lake at a time when the water was flowing down into it. In February 2019, there were terrible floods in Queensland. The waters from this gradually moved down into the Lake Eyre region of South Australia.
These show the waters flowing into the lake from the northern area of South Australia.
Marree is where the Oodnadatta and Birdsville Tracks intersect. We headed west on the Oodnadatta Track to William Creek which is the place for flying to Lake Eyre using WrightsAir.
The following photos show you what it was like travelling through the Southern Flinders Ranges through to Lyndhurst at the end of the sealed road and on to Marree on gravel road.
My photos for the first three days were on my iPad, which suddenly on Wednesday evening died on me. Hence these photos are now from the card in my camera.
In Port Augusta, we first visited the Wadlata Outback Centre which gave us a great idea of what the land was going to be like where we were travelling over the next week.