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| Lake Gairdner - you should see the cars lined up on this lake for speed week. |
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| Lovely climb up for fascinating views |
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| Typical roads |
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| Yes, they were really growing on the roads |
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| Camping at Andamooka, Mounds of Dirt (no opals?) behind us. So enjoyed it here, the town and people were very interesting and friendly. |
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| Cook out at Andamooka - was really great fun. And lovely food. |
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| Flowers in the desert. |
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| Flowers went forever |
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| Annual yellowtop |
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| Galahs up on the huge diesel outlet of water station. They were almost black - think they must be addicted to the fumes. |
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| Sculpture Park in the desert out of Maree |
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| Bitumen - what is that? Haven't seen much of this lately - Roxby Downs to Woomera. |
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| Woomera |
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| Camping on the waterhole at Muloorina Station |
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| Our lovely neighbours, settling up their house. |
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| How is this for a front door view? |
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| Some neighbours with problems with their scrubbed out tyres - Ian helped them to change them. |
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| Off into the unknown - fancy travelling these areas before 1900s - very isolated even now. |
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| Back into South Australia (and colder weather). Should have stayed in Bedourie in the spa haha. |
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| Gypsum on the road, the whiteness is very hard on the eyes. |
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| Tom Kruse's old trucks at Mungeranie (just north of Maree) |
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| Tom Kruse's trucks with his name painted on the door |
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| Walking down the lookout which gave great views over Lake Harry just before Maree |
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| Russell our best man lived at this police station when his father was the Sargent at Maree. Russell used to go out on the truck with Tom Kruse. |
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| Lake Eyre Sailing Club House! |
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| Old Ghan trains at Maree |
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| You can see forever! |
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| Some of the best flowers ever on this trip |
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| Gum Hole Camping Ground on the Diamantina Water Hole, Diamantina National Park - very isolated areas. |
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| More of Gum Hole Camping Area views - a large ginger and white feral cat came out opposite our camp and sunned himself each morning. Not Good. |
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| Gum Hole |
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| Leaving Gum Hole, cattle everywhere - most where very friendly. |
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| Lots of Lonely grave sites |
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| On a clear day you can see forever - I said to Ian - look out there, its probably where we will be camping!! See the spar pic for where we ended up. |
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| Robyn enjoying the very hot spa bath - Artesian waters at Bedourie. Amazing what some little towns will do and all free too. Just loved this. Wish I could stay forever! |
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| Swimming pool complex at Bedourie, right next to the FREE camping ground. |
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| Cobb and Co hut in Bedourie |
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| Getting into Birdsville -very historical town. |
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| Camped next to the lagoon in Birdsville Caravan Park |
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| One of Kidman's stations - opened in 1903 |
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| Kidman owned this house - the Government took the roof for the war effort! |
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| Birdsville Lagoon again |
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| Lagoon on the way to Birdsville |
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| Very interesting watching the population change at the Birdsville Caravan Park - either going to the Simpson desert or arriving back from the adventure. Watching the camping setups, the car packing and or fixing. |
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| Waddi Trees are very rare and very tough. Only three known stands in Australia. |
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| Washing Day at Birdsville |
