Blogs from William Creek, South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Day 5 3/8/2009 Marree to William Creek Awesome weather - Cold nights but glorious days. Marree consisted of a general store, old railway, a couple of caravan park/campgrounds, Pub and the famous intersection of the Birdsville & Oodnadatta Tracks. Campground old and well used but the folk were very friendly. The track leading towards Lake Eyre South was in good nick with changing landscape. From Lake Eyre the track was quiet rough with heaps of corrugations and loose rocky surface. The landscape continued to change from sandy dunes to low laying salty beds. The colours where amazing - varying shades of reds, yellows, browns and greys. Very similar to the colours the aboriginals use in their paintings. Tomorrow we are flying over Lake Eyre before and the Painted Mountains before making our way closer to Oodnadatta. ... read more

Leaving Coober Pedy, we took the dirt track to William Creek, population between 2 and 8 depending on who you listen to and had a XXXX in the pub. The significance of William Creek to us is that this is where our friends Bod and Matilda had visited last December and challenged us to get to the pub (we did), find their photo on the wall (we did) and after making the requisite donation to the Flying Doctors (we did) put our photo next to it (we did). Wahey! Challenge complete! That night, we slept by the campfire in swags in the desert in front of the pub and saw the largest (poisonous) centipede ever.... read more