The road through to Oodnadatta from William Creek wasn’t as good as the run from Marree, lots of corrugation and not so much of interest, though our first water crossing at Wariners Creek was exciting and Peake River and Ghan railway bridge were well worth a stop. Even though Peake River had lots of water in it it was still very salty.
Not far out from Oodnadatta we met an oncoming vehicle going at a great rate of knots, normally an oncoming vehicle will slow down out of courtesy and give a friendly wave, not these two they just kept ploughing on.  |
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Oodnadatta is something you have to experience to be able to appreciate - certainly different, a very sprawling untidy place, population of about 200 mainly made up of aboriginals. The owners arrived in the 1970’s on camelback and never left.
We stayed overnight at the camping ground at the back of the Pink roadhouse and enjoyed a campfire with a few other campers. |
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Just after we pulled in another camper arrived who had picked a young man who, along with his mate, had rolled their car writing it off, scattering their belongings everywhere and who were fortunately only slightly hurt – yes they were the pair we described earlier and crashed just shortly after passing us. The Pink Roadhouse organized the recovery and put them up.
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