ALICE SPRING TILL MARLA
Alice Spring – Picnic area 66
Picnic area – Stuarts Well roadhouse – Finke river picnic area 67
Finke river picnic area – Earldunda road house+40 116
Earldunda roadhouse+40 – Kulgera – Picnic area border – Picnic area 95
Picnic area – 2 other picnic area – Marla 120Alice Spring – Picnic area 66
I take again the Stuart Highway. The road follows by gentle hills through acacia open forest or shrubs land. A lot is burnt. I have first headwind, and then East wind. I decide to stop early to rest. A caravan driver offers me café.
Picnic area – Stuarts Well roadhouse – Finke river picnic area 67
The same country side continues. There are some hills around Stuarts Well creek roadhouse. The road itself is a bit hilly. I have headwind, and in the afternoon the wind turns strong from the West.
Finke river picnic area – Earldunda road house+40 116
The road follows by gentle hills, nearly flat. I see large fields with green blue grass and scattered shrubs, once blue leaves trees, once eucalyptus, and a few times acacias. And there is a new tree, the oak tree, it looks like acacia, but the leaves are fallen way to the ground.
I have headwind in the morning, and North East light wind in the afternoon.
I stop first at the picnic area 42 km ahead, to lunch, it is a nice huge place. Then km 75 I arrive at the Earldunda road house, just at the cross with the road which goes to Uluru park. The roadhouse looks like a business place to cheat tourists. All the agencies buses are there. I don’t like it, so I decide to continue a while.
Well there is a place to camp on left 500 m later. then there is a truck bay 15 km ahead. and then there is a gravel road 40 km before Kulgera. I do 5 km more and find an entrance in fields 35 km before Kulgera, where I turn in, to camp. An other gravel road is 30 km before Kulgera.
By doing a long day, I just save one day, which is no value. But I save 3 nights in roadhouse, and by this 40 $, and 3 incomfortable places. You know roadhouses don’t offer a table and chair like picnic area.
Earldunda roadhouse+40 – Kulgera – Picnic area border – Picnic area 95
It is the same gentle hilly road and the same country side, with a little more acacias today. I have headwind till 10h30, and then backwind. It is cold and cloudy.
Kulgera is just a roadhouse. At the border, the picnic area is nice, but the cairn is horrible, I don’t take a foto.
Around the picnic area, a lot of acacia shrubs have yellow flowers along the road, and there are too red flowers. The picnic area don’t have toilet, but have water. A family gives me the lunch. There are a lot of cakatoes.
I see on the information board an interesting road, through the painted desert and the Breakaway. It goes from Cadney Homestead, after Marla, 110 km way to Oodnadatta, then turn right till Coober Pedy, 150 km. That`s all gravel road, but it seems there are farms, an so water, but only on the wy on, not on the way back.
Picnic area – 2 other picnic area – Marla 120
It is the same nearly flat road. The country side is sometimes acacia or shrubs open forest, sometimes grass with scattered trees or shrubs, sometimes very small shrubs, 50 cm to 100 cm high.
I see some little peaks looking like cons, what it lasts from the very very old mountains, before Marla.
The weather is very cold, cloudy, with light showers, and very windy from East and North, so I have backwind, I make a long day.
The 2 picnic area, at 35 km Agnes creek, and 68 km, a little after Tarconymia creek, are without water nor toilet, and very windy. I don’t want to stay there. At the first one, a guy gives me breakfast, egg and bacon, good.
Chandler is nothing, just a cross to a farm, and Iwanta is a handcraft shop 8 km inside. Well it is plenty places for free camping along the road, in acacia group, but it is so cold and I really need a shower, so I go till Marla.
Marla is a big roadhouse, and a little supermarket. It is 15 $ an unpowered site, but the kitchen have switches, so I can charge my computer. I stay in the kitchen shelter, protected from the wind, and I pitch the tent inside too. I have storm and heavy rain all night.
Picnic area – Stuarts Well roadhouse – Finke river picnic area 67
Finke river picnic area – Earldunda road house+40 116
Earldunda roadhouse+40 – Kulgera – Picnic area border – Picnic area 95
Picnic area – 2 other picnic area – Marla 120Alice Spring – Picnic area 66
I take again the Stuart Highway. The road follows by gentle hills through acacia open forest or shrubs land. A lot is burnt. I have first headwind, and then East wind. I decide to stop early to rest. A caravan driver offers me café.
Picnic area – Stuarts Well roadhouse – Finke river picnic area 67
The same country side continues. There are some hills around Stuarts Well creek roadhouse. The road itself is a bit hilly. I have headwind, and in the afternoon the wind turns strong from the West.
Finke river picnic area – Earldunda road house+40 116
The road follows by gentle hills, nearly flat. I see large fields with green blue grass and scattered shrubs, once blue leaves trees, once eucalyptus, and a few times acacias. And there is a new tree, the oak tree, it looks like acacia, but the leaves are fallen way to the ground.
I have headwind in the morning, and North East light wind in the afternoon.
I stop first at the picnic area 42 km ahead, to lunch, it is a nice huge place. Then km 75 I arrive at the Earldunda road house, just at the cross with the road which goes to Uluru park. The roadhouse looks like a business place to cheat tourists. All the agencies buses are there. I don’t like it, so I decide to continue a while.
Well there is a place to camp on left 500 m later. then there is a truck bay 15 km ahead. and then there is a gravel road 40 km before Kulgera. I do 5 km more and find an entrance in fields 35 km before Kulgera, where I turn in, to camp. An other gravel road is 30 km before Kulgera.
By doing a long day, I just save one day, which is no value. But I save 3 nights in roadhouse, and by this 40 $, and 3 incomfortable places. You know roadhouses don’t offer a table and chair like picnic area.
Earldunda roadhouse+40 – Kulgera – Picnic area border – Picnic area 95
It is the same gentle hilly road and the same country side, with a little more acacias today. I have headwind till 10h30, and then backwind. It is cold and cloudy.
Kulgera is just a roadhouse. At the border, the picnic area is nice, but the cairn is horrible, I don’t take a foto.
Around the picnic area, a lot of acacia shrubs have yellow flowers along the road, and there are too red flowers. The picnic area don’t have toilet, but have water. A family gives me the lunch. There are a lot of cakatoes.
I see on the information board an interesting road, through the painted desert and the Breakaway. It goes from Cadney Homestead, after Marla, 110 km way to Oodnadatta, then turn right till Coober Pedy, 150 km. That`s all gravel road, but it seems there are farms, an so water, but only on the wy on, not on the way back.
Picnic area – 2 other picnic area – Marla 120
It is the same nearly flat road. The country side is sometimes acacia or shrubs open forest, sometimes grass with scattered trees or shrubs, sometimes very small shrubs, 50 cm to 100 cm high.
I see some little peaks looking like cons, what it lasts from the very very old mountains, before Marla.
The weather is very cold, cloudy, with light showers, and very windy from East and North, so I have backwind, I make a long day.
The 2 picnic area, at 35 km Agnes creek, and 68 km, a little after Tarconymia creek, are without water nor toilet, and very windy. I don’t want to stay there. At the first one, a guy gives me breakfast, egg and bacon, good.
Chandler is nothing, just a cross to a farm, and Iwanta is a handcraft shop 8 km inside. Well it is plenty places for free camping along the road, in acacia group, but it is so cold and I really need a shower, so I go till Marla.
Marla is a big roadhouse, and a little supermarket. It is 15 $ an unpowered site, but the kitchen have switches, so I can charge my computer. I stay in the kitchen shelter, protected from the wind, and I pitch the tent inside too. I have storm and heavy rain all night.
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