Category: Travel

Hay River Track camp to Jervois Station. Day 12 – 12 June 2024. Today the plan is to make it to Jervois Roadhouse – 250 or so kilometres. There are showers and some folk are pretty keen to get there.Awoke between 6 and 6:30. Up and dressed and went for a little walk out the…

Up early before 6am as we want to leave by 8:30 to get in front of the group who keep getting to our designated campsites before us. We hit the track with me in the lead. The track has dingo prints and Kate actually saw a Dingo on the track behind me. I saw four…

Camp #7 on the Madigan Line to Camp #12 and a bit. Day 10 – 10 June 2024. A magnificent sleep last night. The night sky makes a pretty good ceiling. We head off about 9:10 to tackle another day of dunes and swales.A little further along Steve pulled up to collect Stef who had…

Camp #1 on the Madigan Line to Camp #7. Day 9 – 9 June 2024. Happy Birthday to Col today. Depart camp at 9:15 dunes ahead. A lot of moisture in the air, thankfully when the sun crests the horizon everything starts to warm up and dry out. Driving into the desert yesterday over the…

Up and about. Lots of moisture in the air so wet awnings and tents to dry out as best we could while having breakfast and packing up. Headed off to have a look at the Algebuckina Bridge over the Neale River and back onto the Oodnadatta Track. Fuel and coffee stop at the Pink Roadhouse…

Kate is sleeping in a black swag, as we were milling around over breaky, Mary noticed some paw prints on the side. Perfect cat prints. I did hear Kate moving around more than any other night. Perhaps it was the visitor. With Half Post Bay to Lake Eyre closed, today we head back towards Marree…

Had an amazingly better sleep last night. Awoke about 6:30 and stuck my head out to see the view and very happy to see sunrise colours and the moon through the cars. We are just sitting and waiting to see what’s happening with the roads. We’ve heard that a decision will be made later in…

Rain Overnight. A little on the end of the swag, but no one has rain where it shouldn’t be. Today we are moving on while waiting for updates re track closures following this rain band. There were some robust discussions around a delightful first campfire re possibilities last night. We really want to get to…

A beautiful sunrise to welcome in the frosty morning. The pub and house were beautiful in the bruised colours of the sky. Cleaning my teeth under the tree, I spied a beautiful bunch of gum nuts, and a bunch with some flowers on it. The birds had obviously chewed them off. The colours of both…