Australia So Much to See

Heading east to visit some outback areas in South Australia

From Wirrulla we left heading north to Kingoonya.  The road is good, someone told us.  It had been very corrugated most of the way when we travelled on it in 2006 #, so we welcomed the news and made the decision to head north, rather than the much longer journey on the Eyre Highway to Port Augusta, then the Stuart Highway.  It was very good, for some way anyway.  We were yet to have our confidence shaken. 

A stretch of around fifty kilometres through Lake Everard and Kokatha Stations was badly corrugated, even worse that last time.  Then the road was reasonable again to Kingoonya.  I think the much longer route via the highways would have been preferable than this damaging stretch of road.    

While mostly clay pans, some lakes had water.  Ranges were interspersed between the lakes.  The hills and the ground here were mainly stones. 

An old dam wall built from stones once formed a dam on a rocky creek on Lake Everard Station. 

Kingoonya, now bypassed by the Stuart Highway, looked shabby, with just a hotel which has caravan parking, and a few Aboriginal houses. One the edge of town was a new looking toilet block, where I understand free campers are welcomed.