Day 10 - start of the My Swag trip

This morning we said goodbye once again to flushing toilets & hot showers and headed off in convoy - 11 vehicles in total with 23 adults & 15 kids (2 more vehicles with another 4 adults & 1 child were to meet us there)- to Chambers Pillar along the Old Ghan Railway. Travelling in such a large convoy is not something we have done before and to see us all lined up waiting to head off was quite a site. The reason we have chosen this particular trip is John & Catie our group leaders are quite experienced around this area and have been a wealth of information leading into this trip & the information booklet they have provided us all with is very impressive.

Along the way we stopped in to have a look at some Aboriginal carvings the Ewaninga Rock Carvings most of these carvings are still sacred and too dangerous to reveal to people who have not been initiated into Aboriginal law, so I can't actually tell you what they say but they were fascinating anyway.

We were then off to Chambers Pillar, driving along the Old Ghan Line was quite dangerous due to the old railway spikes which still litter the road but with good eyes and lots of help from each other we managed to get down to Maryvale for lunch just before starting the journey into Chambers Pillar.

The road into Chambers Pillar was a good test of the 4WD car & trailer, kilometres of the rocky terrain which was not for the faint hearted, after what seemed to go on forever we finally sighted what we were all coming to see and that is Chambers Pillar, wow. It was amazing, we all set up camp between Chambers Pillar & Castle Rock and as the sun was setting some of us set out for a walk to the spot where you can see the light changing on the Pillar very very beautiful. Chloe set off with Kiara, Darcy, Oliver & Tayla to climb to the top of the Pillar.

When the sun was set it was time to sit around the beautiful camp fire, we collected all the wood on our way in and ended up with quite a lot so the fire burned into the night and we all had a few drinks and got to know our fellow travellers, a great bunch of people from all over Australia.