One of our better campsites on the way up from Oodnadatta

One of our better campsites on the way up from Oodnadatta to Finke and Mt Dare where we again caught up with Kim and Venita who had made a detour to Coober Pedy for communications problems!!!

We continued on to Old Andado HS for a very enjoyable roast dinner.. and later returned here on our way south..

The Flickr map even shows it!
Adnobangalina Waterhole Near Eringa

ALOFBRID we are now safely home after 31 days on the road and 7,000km later.

We had some great experiences, but failed to achieve the aim of the trip, which was to cross the Simpson Desert around the Rig Road.

This is the second time we have organised this trip and failed, the first time from an injury, this time because of the wettest season across Australia for years it seems.

Floods down the coast, knives from kitchens washed up on Sydney beaches after the dunes and beaches were eroded, and muddy floodways, puddles and ruts and Grey Nomads everywhere wherever we went!

Our travelling companions refused to go home without attempting it, so we left them in Mt Dare with the risk of 25mm rains across the desert and us being stranded 1000km from our trailer and gear in Marree.

Kim and Venita took their all-wheel drive VW Transporter across the French Line. Not an enjoyable trip. Too much traffic, too many big corrugations created by people towing trailers across, and many motor bikes and Quad bikes heading to the end of the Finke Race!

We had a pleasant drive south, but racing the rain, back to our trailer and continued up to Birdsville! Where we ran into K and V again as they came from Big Red!

We tuned in on the radio to Australia All Over and heard Macca hear, clear as a bell.
www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/australiaallover/
And Macca on the radio...
youtu.be/KGHUjrPc3dc

North of Oodnadatta in the Pedirka Desert...

On the Lindsay Creek, which flows down into the Stevenson Creek, but peters out into the sand dunes near Mt Sarah homestead, all in the Eyre Basin, but it never reaches Lake Eyre! Neither does the mighty old Finke River

See the video clip on Youtube of our arrival...

youtu.be/Ho3cvgowfiY In comments below.

See a profile on Macca published on the Australian in 2007..
www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine...

There is also a good reference to Macca on Wikipedia,
He is celebrating 35 years on ABC radio today in Blackall, near the Black Stump!

See..
www.desertexpeditions.org/robyn-davidson-essay.html

Robyn was participating in an Australian Desert Expeditions Archaeological Expedition along Eyre Creek in the eastern Simpson Desert, Queensland.

The Australian desert: historically a place of heartbreak or of God. Explorers vanished into it. Pioneers met bitter ends there. Wives killed themselves for loneliness. Nowadays convoys of Toyota tourists charge across it, enjoying its beauty and breadth, but in an ambiguous way, as if there were something in it to conquer. Something dangerous to be put down.

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