Our first stop was at Lyndhurst. We stopped there to let some air out of the tyres and put a stone guard on the back windscreen. We did that because the dirt started there but it was just bitumen for the first few kelomintors. We soon pulled off at the Ochre Cliffs is where the Aboriginals went to get ochre for their paintings. There were many different colours all along the side of the cliffs. It was very cold but worth seeing.
Our second stop was at Farina. It's now a bunch of ruins and broken buildings. It used to be a town that wanted to grow wheat but didn't have the right type of land so they turned it into a cattle station. We looked at all the ruins and there was a post office, police station, houses and heaps of other buildings. We looked at the underground bakery but it was closed because they are restoring it so unfortunately we couldn't actually go in. We did go up and see a nice little camping area and up there on the way up to the historic cemetry. The cemetry was a little sad as they had a list of most of the people they had found. The list said there first and last name, year they died and how old they were. There were some who were 5 hours old and then some who were 58 years old.
After that we kept going until we got to Marree. It's a small town and the official start of the Oodnadatta Track, but the main reason we stopped was because Linda suddenly told us that something was leaking from out trailer. It turns out it was the water tank and all of the water had either been lost on the road or gushing out then when we stopped. Dad had to get under the trailer to see what had happened and the Y clip to the water pipes had snapped off. He had to join the kitchen one back on with duck tape and we've just left the other one for now. We then had to drive around the corner to a park so we could put water back into the tank. We will be needing that.
After we finished with that little crises we started down the road again but only for a minute because we had reached the start of the Oodnadatta Track. It's an all dirt road with country on both sides of it. We stopped again to look at the Longest Dog Fence. It's meant to keep the dingoes out of the paddocks. Dad and I went to look at the sign with Linda and Taylor and the sign read 'A very Bloody long fence'. We all had a laugh at that and took a couple photos before going on out way again.
Our next stop was a few Paddocks which had metal 3D sculpters in them. It was called the Plane Hendge. It was pretty cool because there was 2 planes with, what to me, looked like snakes, a sunflower, a triangle with a circle in it, some people and a water tank with a old car on the side that looked like a dog.
We then stopped at Lake Eyre. I know another stop, but Lake Eyre is actually the biggest lake Australia. It looked massive and we only saw a little corner of it. We saw the south corner of it and that looked like the biggest lake i had seen already, but when Dad said that that was only a small part of it I couldn't believe it! It looked like it was full of water but what could actually see was a whole lot of salt. Yup I was getting all excited because it looked really pretty full of water but no, it was all salt.
After them we didn't stop again until we reached Coward Springs. We will be spending 2 nights here and we're in a really good spot. Out of the wind and close into the path that leads up to the hot springs. We saw some camels as we were driving into that park and it turns out that they do a camel ride here. I want to go on one but Dad said that we can do it at another place and Mum and Dad said that they wouldn't do it. So it looks like it's just me rideing a camel this holiday.
Tomorrow we will just be relaxing and going to the hot springs and stuff. It will be good to have a day to rest and not be in a car.
Today's blog is by Chloe
What a great story Chloe! You write very well; plenty of information told in a way that sounds interesting. We spoke to Amber last night and guess what? She's missing Minty!! It's been very wet, very cold and very windy in Melbourne. You are in a much better spot.
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