Innaminka and Coopers Creek

 We arrived at Innaminka and organised accommodation.

Then we headed for Cooper's Creek and the site of the original grave of Burke.  The seriously flawed leader of the Burke and Wills Expedition.  In this part of the world, a "Creek" can be a dry river bed, a tiny trickle or a 40 km wide sheet of water flowing over the landscape.  There had been plenty of recent rain so the area was green and the Creek was flowing.

Lunch was under one of the massive eucalypts that lined the creek.

Burke died here after accepting food from and then ignoring the advice of the local indigenous population.  His body was later moved to Melbourne.