"Outback Australia"
May 2002
Page 2
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| The Birdsville Track starts at Marree.
We followed this track right up to Mungerannie, a station 206 km away. |
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| The Track runs through meager vegetated sand dunes. | |
| The Cooper is most of the time a dry riverbed. When it rains hard in the tropic North (once every 10 years or so), the water drains into the Cooper and it becomes a raging monster 11 to 40 km wide. Sadley the flood doesn't last long. The water quickly looses itself in the inland desert. Only waterholes remind here and there. |
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| We been very surprised to meet up with a Touristbus in the middle of nowhere, their tents were allready pitshed, they wanted to see a stary outback night. |
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| That's how the ground looks, only sand and little stones, not much feed for the animals. | ||
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| A beer for our durst, before we hit the road again. | |
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| The water comes near boiling out of the earth. We would have liked to go for a swim, but we found it to hot. | |
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| The animals are coming home for a drink. | |
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| Water from the artesien bore runs here over the road. |
All of a sudden it looked like rain, we had to turn for home before they closed the roads. |
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| We picked our caravan up... |
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| ...and turned south! |
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| The story goes: 1930 a local farmer went with his first car up this hill. He had a flat tyre and packed rocks behind each wheel to prevent the car rolling back while he was changing the tyre. To his great surprise, the car startet to roll forwards up the hill. On this photo we were coming back, driving up the hill which looks like down. Take my word it was a real awesome feeling. |
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| We wanted to see the 7000 year old Aboriginal-Carvings .(Last photo in the row.) | ||
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| This is the largest Red Gum in South Australiain Its circumference is 11 metres and it is 500 years old and very healty. | |