Simpson Sojourn 2011: Day 15. Saturday October 15th. William Creek to Adelaide

Saturday October 15^th – WILLIAM CREEK TO ADELAIDE.

Up for a quick breakfast and onto the road for a long days travel – we now have two days to get home – about 1600kms.

Breaky outside our rooms at William Creek.

We headed off again with some quick photo’s of the “Old Ghan” railway and Overland Telegraph line, towards Roxby Downs.

The overland telegraph line

Crossed our Creek again - Stuart Creek. It even had some water in it.

We stopped for a ‘wee’ break at Lake Eyre South before heading on.

Milani and Kerri at Lake Eyre South - another pitstop.

Again we saw some lizards etc along the way. At one stop we also got some good photos of a snake slithering across the road.

a snake had crossed the road, quite a healthy specimen

Roxby Downs, Olympic Dam Village, Woomera, Pimba were all on the way. We stopped for lunch at Woomera, with a chance for some who hadn’t been to check out the planes and rockets etc.

We hit bitumen at Roxby Downs, inflated tyres AGAIN, and that was pretty much the end of the photos...

Steve had no indicators all day, and this proved a little trickier through town, so he stayted sandwiched between Stef and Nicola who acted as his indicators.

Through to Port Augusta where FINALLY Stef and Steve had to fuel up, for the first time since Birdsville.

After Port Augusta we started to plan for accommodation for hte night somewhere near Murray Bridge initially, but the town was booked out it seemed. Then we determined Adelaide would do the trick, but we didn’t have much luck there either, finally got two rooms to house us all at Arkana County Motel...good work Stef. We threw our gear upstairs and then walked to the Kubla Khan Mongolian BBQ for tea. It was fabulous, even Reve had a go at mixing her own options to be quickly cooked on the huge wood fired plate. Very nice and a great choice by Stef.