Friday 19 July 2013 – Flight over Lake Eyre and Travel to Arkaringa Homestead

Friday 19 July 2013 – Flight over Lake Eyre and Travel to Arkaringa Homestead

Fantastic flight over Lake Eyre in a small Cessna aircraft – different colours of the water, salt and mud and such a great expanse – it had high water levels over the past three years, however, there was only a small amount in the south of North Lake Eyre for our viewing.

In Oonadatta a must see was the Pink Roadhouse which was recently been sold.  The Plate family has owned it for many years and have done a remarkable job in advertising the roadhouse with pink and white plates scattered over the desert highlighting points of interest.  It seemed that the Pink roadhouse was the only spark of joy and life in this run down mainly aboriginal town.

Decide to travel across to the painted desert and saw remarkable hills with great colours.

The painted desert lies across the cattle station of Arkaringa, and we spent the night camped at their Homestead.  The family were gracious hosts providing large hot showers, BBQ, campfire and spots to camp.  We had a great night of fun with 4 other families, cooking jaffles and spuds in the campfire and swapping stories and experiences.  Especially with a lovely couple Andy and Caroline Trenfield from the UK now in OZ who were travelling for an indeterminate time and who were serious bloggers - writing a travel blog that was close to 1 million words - www.mytb/kangaroojack

Hi to all at Lighthouse Community – we miss you all and Friday Night Group – sorry no internet otherwise we would have tried to Skype you.

Slept like logs!