Outback

Stage 3: Adelaide via Mambray Creek to Woomera

Total Distance: 609 km

Weather: fine and warm! 26 - 28  degrees C

 Tuesday 8th May

In a way this feels like the beginning of the holiday. We had morning tea in our 'usual' place at Port Wakefield with its lovely stone cottages. Lunch and a walk at Crystal Brook - our first visit to that town. The weather was very hot and windy with lots of raised dust and billowing smoke from a bushfire in the Lower Flinders Ranges - it felt like summer. We called in at Port Germain and walked the pier which took 40mins and then on to Mambray Creek Campground in Mount Remarkable N. P, a favourite place we can thoroughly recommend to travellers along Highway 1. A short stroll, book reading and tea. The wind dropped, the silence is deafening!

Contemplating the walk back

Bushfire in Lower Flinders

Mambray Creek

                                                                     Wednesday 9th May
Left early, turned right at Port Augusta and headed up the Stuart Highway, with lots of other grey nomads - we are going to have to get used to the crowds. Gibber plains, road trains, salt lakes, blue skies and wide open spaces - feels good. After settling in and lunching at Woomera we did the town on our bikes - 1st ride a whole 7 km. A lot of rockets and weapons history.

Island Lagoon

Woomera Sunset