Coober Pedy to Marla Day 24 Kilometres travelled today....... 235 We left the van park in Coober Pedy at 9:00am and headed for the Stuart Highway for the start of our comparatively short run of 235 kilometres to Marla, The highway followed the Central Australian Railway line for most of the journey through very flat and barren desert country. After travelling for about 150 kilometres we arrived at the isolated Cadney Homestead Roadhouse where we enjoyed a welc...

Glendambo to Coober Pedy Days 22 to 23 Kilometres travelled today......271 After leaving Glendambo we travelled through mainly desert scenery for 271 kilometres, arriving in Coober Pedy in the early afternoon. We checked into the Oasis Van Park, and had a fairly ordinary site with no water connection and no room to put our TV antenna up because we were parked under a low strung net. We spent 2 nights in the town and made the most of our time there with a full...

Port Augusta to Glendambo Day 21 302 km travelled today We left Port Augusta at about 8:00am and joined the Stuart Highway heading for Woomera, 173 kilometres ahead, where we spent several hours examining the planes and rockets. It was here we noticed a caravan in the car park which had a sign that indicated that it came from Gosford, however we didn't see the occupants. It was later in the trip that we came across the van again and this time we met the occupa...

Rawnsley Park to Port Augusta Days 19 to 20 164 KM Travelled Today After a leisurely departure from Rawnsley Park Station we travelled back through Hawker and Quorn, where we stopped for coffee. The main attraction of Quorn is the Pichi Richi Railway, which is an operating museum, operating regular heritage train journeys on the oldest remaining section of the famous narrow-gauge old Ghan railway. During World War II, Quorn was a vital service point for train...

Peterborough to Rawnsley Park Days 15 to 18 182 kms Travelled We left Peterborough at 9:55am on our journey to The Flinders Ranges, travelling through Orroroo, Carrieton, Craddock and Hawker. Hawker is a town in the Flinders Ranges, 365 km north of Adelaide. It has a population of 229. The main economic activities in the area are tourism and pastoral runs of sheep and increasingly cattle. Hawker is 55 km south of Wilpena Pound, It was a thriving railway town...