Sunday, 1 June 2014

Heading north

Sunday 25th May

About half hour north of Coober Pedy are the Breakaways, a colourful group of hills and rock formations which have been used as the backdrop in quite a few movies.  This was a beautiful spot.

 The Breakaways


The rest of the day was spent on the bitumen of the Stuart Highway, which at least was reddish in colour for a lot of the way.  The current Ghan railway line pretty much follows the highway. 


We made the obligatory stop at the SA/NT border, which is a nice, landscaped wayside stop which offers free overnight camping. 



However it was still early enough for us to go a little further so we continued to the hotel/roadhouse at Kulgera and found a nice area to camp out on the Finke road.  Red dirt, green trees, sunset and solitude … who could ask for more?



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