We camped overnight at a free camp about 60km out of Oodnadatta. We’ve become quite attached to these free camps, most are on dry creek beds with lovely shade trees- mind you, they’d be a different cup of tea in the wet season. We stayed on the banks of Kathleen Creek- very pretty and had some water still that was attracting bird life from all around- even a family of ducks. Not sure what they were diving for but they were spending most of their time with bottoms up- probably yabbies given the amount of mud.

These free camps are just fabulous- so quiet

left there round 9 am to complete the last leg of the Oodnadatta track. This is probably the roughest section of the track – I guess the graders haven’t got this far yet.- but still relatively smooth.
Hit the tarmac (for the first time in 3 weeks) round lunchtime. Pausing only for pictures at the end of the Oodnadatta.

From Marla began our journey south to Coober Pedy. We knew we were getting close when we saw the sea of mining mounds.

A quick trip up to the Big Winch look out before heading to our camp at Riba’s underground campground. Needless to say the ‘underground’ bit is for those in tents and swags- we remain well and truly above ground.