Oodnadatta Track - Saturday 8th August
The first morning of this trip where we could sit outside the van in the morning sunshine enjoying our morning coffee. It was still cool, but bearable and the sun was lovely. The forecast is for 27C here tomorrow.
We were on the road by 9:30am, turning left out of the roadhouse to start the Oodnadatta Track. Here's the famous sign:
All the guide books says this end of the Oodnadatta is the best, and it was a good gravel road, with only a couple of short sections of corrugations. We stopped for morning tea at Coongra Creek, which looks like a popular camping spot, judging by the seat someone had made!
Trying to time the next couple of days, we then didn't actually make it far down the Track before pulling up stumps for camp. Well off the Track, on the banks of the Oolarinna Creek, which is obviously dry. We've got a great spot all to ourselves so after lunch, and a couple of walks, the campfire was set up and soon scones were baking in the campoven, coupled with percolated coffee for afternoon tea. Oh, it's a hard life!
As the sun started to set, we gathered around the campfire and played some music through our van's external speakers. Lots of laughs as we drew parellels with the TV ad where the campers play "doof doof" music to scare off potential neighbouring campers! But there's no-one around here to annoy with our music!!
A beautiful dinner of corned beef and roast vegetables and a night around the campfire as it cooled down was a great end to a fantastic day.
posted by Tracey @ 9:47 pm
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