Beds were great at the Royal Hotel.
Set out at 8:15am and drove to Port Augusta for breakfast at Hungry Jacks.
Stopped at the Arid Lands Botanical Gardens lookout but not much to see (Liam says “it sucks”)
Woomera is very cool but Liam wishes that he could launch one of the many rockets or fly in a plane. We went to the museum and the Rocket display. Lunch was at Breen Park where they had lots of birds including a cocky who said hello and a peacock with a 2m tail.
Roxby Downs was dull. The Olympic Dam tour was booked out so we got fuel and kept going to Andamooka.
Andamooka is certainly different to Roxby Downs!! Nothing planned here!! Just sort of happened I guess.
Set out at 8:15am and drove to Port Augusta for breakfast at Hungry Jacks.
Stopped at the Arid Lands Botanical Gardens lookout but not much to see (Liam says “it sucks”)
Woomera is very cool but Liam wishes that he could launch one of the many rockets or fly in a plane. We went to the museum and the Rocket display. Lunch was at Breen Park where they had lots of birds including a cocky who said hello and a peacock with a 2m tail.
Roxby Downs was dull. The Olympic Dam tour was booked out so we got fuel and kept going to Andamooka.
Andamooka is certainly different to Roxby Downs!! Nothing planned here!! Just sort of happened I guess.
The lady in the Post Office (which doubles as an Information Centre) was sort of useful. She suggested that we could noodle for opals near a creek and camp in the dunes but when we drove to where she suggested it wasn’t nice. We checked out the other campground that was the car park to the playground. It was terrible!! We decided to drive further along the track going to Stuarts Creek to see if there were any good spots to camp and noodle. We took the track to the airstrip and came across some great mullock heaps (no opals though) and some nice camping spots amongst the dunes. Probably where the Post Office lady suggested but we didn’t go far enough the first time.
Camping with a fire and with Butter Chicken & Peas Paneer for dinner is very good. A few drops of rain, a purple sunset and a bit windy but a great way to finish the day. NextG coverage is excellent amongst the dunes so an on-location blog post!
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