Day 10

Our pre retirement trial trip- day 10
74 km Coward Springs to William Creek

The aim today was to get to William Creek as early as possible. Job done ✔️

We had a flight booked from William Creek at 12 mid day, but they wanted to bring it forward as the temp was expected to hit 43 degrees, so we agreed to get on the road at day break to do it earlier.
Protein shake with a coffee shot made a yummy, creamy, cold latte that doubled as morning coffee and breakfast - winner 🏆

Leaving Coward Springs we had an impromptu stop just up the road to double check Justine had locked Hester’s doors- she had ✔️, then another stop to check the boot doors were locked - she hadn’t ❌, then again to put the carafan on, and lucky we did as today’s journey was extremely dusty.
EVENTUALLY we started Day 2 of the Oodnadatta Track
We arrived in William Creek finding a fracture to the water overflow pipe- sillily it had a needless plastic join in it that broke, now it is bushed fixed with a more workable solution - at least for now 😜

Alex, our pilot, flew us over Anna Creek Station (the worlds largest cattle station, covering the size of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) to Lake Eyre (which is not full but currently has water reaching all parts of the lake) over the Oodnadatta Track and the Dog Fence ( the worlds longest fence stretching 2110km) to land at the Painted Hills (only accessible by air) where we were able to walk amongst them, before heading back.
It was sooo hot, but such a fantastic experience (Johnny can count it as his birthday trip 😜)

Had drinks and dinner at the William Creek Hotel, purely to take advantage of the air conditioning ❄️

With the low of 26 not expected until 6am tomorrow we are taking full advantage of the power to have the air conditioning on all night- sorry neighbours

Home for the night William Creek campgroundOkumaya devam et