Posts Tagged ‘Marla’

Day 447. 110km. Marla – Olarinna Creek

Posted: September 5, 2016 in Australia, Cycling
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Headwind. But also good road surface. We left early today and cycled down the Oodnadatta track. I have never seen it so green. From little rises, the landscape looks like endless fields of grass with cows grazing. From close-up it is prickly thin grasses blowing in the wind. The desert in bloom.

The Oodnadatta Track

The Oodnadatta Track

When there is no wind there are zillions of flies. We had lunch out of the wind behind a little shed next to a communications tower. The flies were extremely friendly, and also glad to be out of the wind.

Lunch stop

Lunch stop

We are camping in a dry creek-bed. A lovely spot with lots of wood for a lovely fire. Tomorrow Oodnadatta.

Day 446. 67km. Indulkana – Marla

Posted: September 4, 2016 in Australia, Cycling
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There they were on the side of the road – the beautiful Sturt Desert Pea. I’ve only seen them here in the far north of South Australia. South Australia – I’m getting very near.

Sturt Desert Pea

Sturt Desert Pea

With only 65km on a bitumen road with a tailwind we had time to sleep in and talk with John and his visitor Liz. Then we left the APY Aboriginal lands – after about a week in this beautiful place which has left our heads spinning with contradictions I need time to process.

Leaving the APY Lands

Leaving the APY Lands

We arrived in Marla and collected the several tonnes of food our friends in Alice Springs had sent. Having been invited to dinner almost every night in the APY lands, we still had lots of food, and there was no way we could possibly take this food with us on the Oodnadatta track. I did a circuit of the caravan park and found a lovely New Zealand couple – Wendy and Gregory – to take our excess food to Oodnadatta. Now we are all set for the next dirt road into the outback – one I have driven several times before.