Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Down the Oodnadatta Track

We headed south on the Oodnadatta Track heading for Marree. Even though this is an outback track there is plenty of interest along the way. Our first stop was the ruins of the Strangeways settlement, originally set up to service the Ghan.  The most intact ruin was the remains of a massive block work water tank for the old steam engines.
The old graves were an indication of the harsh environment.
Down the Track there were a number of "mound springs". Artesion water forced up to the surface produced mounds over the millennia with the water gushing from the top of the mounds.
Along the Track there are also ruins of Cottages used to house the fettlers who maintained the railway tracks.
At Marree we saw the station where we remember changing trains from the wide gauge train from Port Augusta to the narrow gauge Ghan that took us to Alice Springs in 1979.
There is no better way to finish a day than to spend time chatting around a camp fire.

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