Turning North

Well after a couple of days in Port Augusta where we took pics & did a bit of shopping we headed up the Stuart H’way to an overnight stop at Glendambo before heading to Coober Pedy The opal capital of the world.
Part one of the trip to Glendambo was through typically outback country of Australia, the red soil, the salt bush & clay pans. One lake had water but most had evaporated & left a skin of salt. Not as much road kill as we have seen in previous trips.
Glendambo camp was OK for an overnighter but not more, prices in the hotel were over then moon $6.50 for a schooner of beer, a chap at our table paid $10.30 for a glass of red wine. The hot water in the showers lasted about 2 minutes but required a packed lunch to get to the ablution block from the site.
Coober Pedy, we have settled in with a good site although access was tight but a fellow traveler put it on for Browny after 3 attempts, which ended with us coming in from a different direction. We went & paid for our trip up the Oodnadatta track with the mailman, a 12 hour trip delivering mail to the stations along the way (watch for next installment). We also booked a flight over the secret painted Hills Williams Creek & Lake Eyre, which has water after the monsoon rains up north. The flight was quoted originally at $600 each but as we were prepared to share with 2 others it was dropped to $400 about the same as a flight from William Creek but that would have needed a 370 Km return drive along a gravel road.

the first 5 pics are (1)Toilet Door sign At Glendambo (2)Salt Pan
(3)Love Birds (4)Road Sign (5) Dreamtime Sign @ Lake Hart
The next pictures are (1)Not Uluru (2)Lake Hart (3)outback Road (4&5) Port Augusta Landscape (6)Salt Pan Lake Hart (7) Glendambo Camp (8) Bare Lake (9) Cloud out of Pt Augusta.