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Ridge Top Tour Arkaroola
Talc Alf's Creations Lyndhurst
Talc Alf's House
Lyndhurst
Alan playing around on
Oodnadatta Track
The
Painted Dessert
Dalhousie Springs Ranger
Deen Ah Chee
Dalhousie Springs
Geographical
Centre of Australia
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We will stock up on supplies
again before leaving the Flinders Ranges to drive
up through the
gorges and come out at Parachilna.
On leaving Parachilna we went to a small town
called Blinman. Blinman has population of 17 which includes a new born baby. One
family consists of seven and own the hotel and general store. We had lunch at the hotel
which was very good.
On leaving Blinman we went onto Arkaroola where we went on
the ridge top tour which travels around the sides of mountains and along the
ridges eventually arriving at the peak.
We stayed at Arkaroola for a few days
before driving onto Copley which is a few kilometres north of Leigh Creek.
We stayed at Copley for two weeks with Shirley and David our hosts. Shirley cooks lovely
batch of scones each day for morning tea with the parks campers.
Whilst at Copley we met
up with Phil and Sharon from Glendale TAFE, Newcastle who traveled with us along
the Oodnadatta track as far as Oodnadatta.
After leaving Copley we drove onto
Lyndhurst and went to visit Alf the talc man who sculptures art out of talc. From Lynhurst onto Marree the start of the Oodnadatta Track.
We traveled along the Oodnadatta Track to Oodnadatta's
famous Pink Road House, stopping and
seeing all the springs and small towns along the way.
After leaving Phil and Sharon at Oodnadatta.
Helen and I drove down to The Painted Dessert
and then back up to Oodnadatta Road House.
We then went onto Dalhousie Springs
turning off at Hamilton. The road from Hamilton to Dalhousie was rough and slow.
On reaching Dalhousie Springs we became friendly with the National Park ranger,
Dean Ah Chee who is aboriginal and a good guy. We stayed a Dalhousie Springs for
about 10 days talking to the many 4 wheel drive owners who pulled in and camped
for the night before setting off across the Simpson Dessert.
One Saturday night
there were 48 four wheel drive vehicles with there passengers that camped for
the night.
On leaving Dalhousie we headed off to
Mount Dare Station. We arrived at the Mount Dare Station in time for lunch. You can
only purchase a pie or sausage roll to eat and a beer to quench the thirst. This will change when they finish their new
building.
From Hamilton to Mount Dare Homestead is about 145 km's. Our GPS said
we never went above 32 km's hour and we never got out of 1st and 2nd gear for
that distance. It took us around 9 hours.
We made it too the aboriginal community of Finke about 6.00pm, after taking some
photo's we then traveled another 22 km's to Lamberts
geographical centre of Australia where we sent up camp for the night. |
