Level ground at last

Day 6, so far we have covered 2130 km taking just under 28 hrs actual driving time.

Average speed 79km per hour, 13.6litre per 100km.

Able to relax now after driving those “hills” into the city of churches. I do have a cure for those hills but it would take someone like Jeff Kennet to do the job. Just bulldoze the hills over the city burying a few crows but improving the road from Melbourne to the centre greatly. It was one experience I could have done without but thought me how to use the gearbox manually.

Spend an interesting day on the road yesterday with the “mail man” Coober Pedy to Oodnadatta to William Creek to Coober Pedy 600km of which 200km were on the Oodnadatta track. Anna Creek station [ world largest ] 28000 square km in size, the size of Belgium. Sign on entering the station said watch out for aircraft, they have their own runway that you drive past. The station is run by 10 people, looking after about 18500 head of cattle one head per one and a half square kilometre. Not a bad little farm.

Our transport for the mail run along the Oodnadatta Track (only worth about a quarter of a million brand new!!!)

We're heading for William Creek - 200km along the Oodnadatta Track

Along the Oodnadatta Track - miles and miles of open land
(actually all of the land you can see in this image is part of Anna Creek Station)

Anna Creek Station - nothing grandiose about this homestead, despite being the largest cattle station in the world