13/4/16
Leaving York Peninsula we headed north where our initial
plan was to travel up the centre of Australia as quick as possible to the north
eastern corner of Western Australia to explore while conditions were still
reasonable, due to the area suffering from a not so wet, wet season.
Our first night was spent parked off the side of the road
about 40 kilometres north of Port Augusta.
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| Overnight camp |
The main north/south highway was about 150 metres to one
side of us with the train line about the same distance away on our other side,
providing spasmodic noise on either side throughout the night with the
occasional “surround sound” effect with road trains and goods trains passing by
at the same time.
It felt good to be travelling again. We were in such a good
frame of mind that we happily chattered the time away and it didn’t seem long
before we had clocked up several hundred kilometres.
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| Travelling north it wasn't long before the landscape changed |
Day two and the novelty of long distant driving had already
diminished. It was time for a break and we deviated off the main road to
explore the mining town of Roxby Downs. Unfortunately the absence of any
charisma in the township saw us moving on after a couple of hours and we made
our way to Andamooka.
Andamooka oozed with character. It was an old opal mining
town with miners homes nestled on a honeycomb of underground diggings.
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| Campground just in front of the mounds, Andamooka |
We drove around the streets viewing all the shanty shack
type homes with yards full of rusty wrecked vehicles and equipment.
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