Gidday all,

On the road again, after a tearful goodbye to our new camel herd, and Deb and Thackeray the dog, we headed out the gate to the camp for the last time for this season.

Was hard leaving, but will catch up on our way back south next trip.

First stop, Talc Alf, just outside Lyndhurst on the Strzelecki track. He is a bit of an eccentric talc carver, with his own take on the meaning of words and their origin. Had a look around at his carvings and a good chat. Very interesting, has his own version of the Australian flag, more appropriate I think.

 

Then off to Marree,  then up the Birdsville track. The difference after the rain was striking. Green everywhere and the wildflowers were starting to bloom.

 

Yellow daisies everywhere and ones we know as poached eggs, as well as others in different colours.

 

Up the track a bit, came across a dingo, sitting in the middle of the road. It wasn’t afraid of the truck and just hung around, looking, which is unusual, after a lot of photos we moved on leaving her to it.

 

 

 

 

 

In places they covered large areas, as well as small patches here and there, what a change from the parched, desert landscape of some eleven months ago, when we passed through on our way south.

 

 

 

Cool days and cold nights with spectacular sunsets and sunrises, how lucky we are to see the contrasts of this vast brown land.