Day 5 - Coward Springs to Algebuckina

Today we where all awake by about 6:30am. Yup that early and it was really cold too! So we planned to leave at about 9:30am but ended up leaving leaving at 8:30am. It was good we left that hour earlier too because we got a bit lost at out first stop.

So our first stop was at Strangways. It used to be a small town on top of a hill but now it's ruins. We've seen afew ruins this holiday so far but there all pretty interesting. We walked to the top of the hill to see the town, well what used to be the town anyway. There were are couple of cattle yards, a police station and I guess a few others but they were all just a pile of rubble now. We did a walk around the town in a loop and saw some extinct springs, a very small cemetry and one of the only remaining telegraph poles. Mum said its weird that nearly 100 years ago they could get telegraph around the country but now in 2014 we can't get any reception. It kinda sucks.

We then kept driving until we got to William Creek and just had to stop and go into the pub. William Creek is the smallest town In Australia, next to the biggest lake in Australia and inside the largest cattle station in the world. The inside of the pub was pretty amazing the roof and walls were covered in old licenses, passports, business cards and there was even a couple boots! Dad and Linda got a beer while Taylor and I got rasberry lemonade and Mum got some water. So we drank out drinks and Dad decided to staple his Pajero Club membership card into the wall. We're hoping he gets a new one but too late now. As we were leaving we saw one of the girls who lived there get on a bike and was apparently riding to Anna Creek Station. That's a long way on a push bike.

After our nice little break we kept driving until we got to Algebuckina. We got a choice of near the railway bridge or near the water hole across the track. We went for the water hole because apparently it's nicer than the bridge side. We set up and the flies were just awful! They wouldn't leave us alone so I sat in the tent and did my own journal while Mum passed me bread, butter, peanut butter and a knife I made a sandwich. It was very yummy. :) Anyway after we had set up we drove over to the bridge and went up to look at it. At the end there was a path you could walk out on to look up the rest of the track. It looked so cool! 

We drove back to the camp and sat around for the rest of the day until another family that we are going on this trip with caught up to us. When it started getting dark the flies went away so we got some nibbles out and started the fire. We spent the rest of the night around the fire and doing nothing really.

Tomorrow we head off to Marla which is also the end of the Oodnadatta Track. So just one more day and we've done it. Then we can head off to Alice Springs to start the actual My Swag trip.

Today's blog was done by Chloe