Oodnadatta 2019 – An image a day

Homeward bound

April 15, 2019 Miss W. Leave a comment

Heading home via Woomera, Port Augusta and Mildura

We followed much of the orange and purple tracks on bottom of map

: Students on trip to Alice Springs stop off at salt Lake Hart

: Many of the outdoor displays at Woomera are under maintenance

: All about Len Beadell

: Display inside the Woomera Heritage Centre

: The Ghan now travels along this track through central Australia

: Sun rising at Port Augusta

: Houseboats on the Murray River

: Murray very low

: The great Murray Cod at Swan Hill

: New silo paintings at Rochester, Victoria

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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.

Entrance to Coober Pedy showing the big winch built there for opal mining

: Part of the golf course

: First tree in Coober Pedy

: Part of the town looking from the Big Winch Lookout

: Wherever you see a pipe, there is a house underground

: Underground Serbian Orthodox Church

: The Dog Fence on our way to the Breakaways

: Part of the Breakaways

: Salt and pepper – zoom in on photo to read the aboriginal legend of the hills

: Garry talking to our aboriginal tour guide for the day, Tanya

: Can you see the sleeping camel?

: Leaves from this bush can help with arthritis according to Tanya who gave Sharon the recipe

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William Creek to Coober Pedy

April 15, 2019 Miss W. Leave a comment

Changing the flat tyre

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.

: Sunrise at William Creek

: Coober Pedy track is open

: Panel was loose, so removed before travelling on

: Checking out the bull dust trap

: Davo wonders what he could eat out here in the desert

: Starting to see mullock heaps near Coober Pedy

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Flight over Lake Eyre

April 15, 2019 Miss W. One comment

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.

Looking through the cockpit with our female pilot on the left.

These show the waters flowing into the lake from the northern area of South Australia.

: Flying towards the lake

: Warburton River which forms the groove going down the western side of the lake

: Water starting to fill the lake

: Water overflowing from the Warburton Groove in the lake

: Edge of the overflow

: The groove starting to overflow

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Marree to William Creek

April 15, 2019 Miss W. One comment

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.

Sunrise at Marree

: Parts of the original Ghan railway track can still be seen

: Part of the Mutonia Sculpture Park

: The gigantic metal dingo

: South Lake Eyre is in view

: Flocks of corellas

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Port Augusta to Marree

April 13, 2019 Miss W. One comment

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.

Mosaic mural on wall in Port Augusta

: River courses near Pichi Richi pass

: Kanyaka homestead

: Hills of the southern Flinders Ranges

: Getting more desert like with low scrub

: Garry (our normal coach driver) at Lyndhurst where the Outback Highway meets Strzelecki Track

: Watering gravel road to stop the bull dust rising too much

: Tom Kruse used to drive this with the mail from Marree to Birdsville in all types of weather

: Heritage listed sandstone building is the Marree Hotel

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Thursday morning 28 March 2019

April 13, 2019 Miss W. Leave a comment

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.