Greenways2012: Sunday 8th July - Tuesday 10th July 2012

We had a cold but lovely night last night close to the waterhole.
After breakie we drove out towards the Lake Eyre viewing point about 50km from our campsite on the station.

Ed and the kids carved 'Hi from Perth' into the lake bed

We took a walk over the dune down onto the channel between Lake Eyre north and south. It was a dry salt lake which the kids enjoyed making pictures in the salt. We decided to walk out towards the water but we were never going to get there. It looked like you were getting close but it was just a mirage. As we got further out it got very muddy. We walked out for approximately 2km to one of the salt lines but we were miles away from the actual water.

Walking on Lake Eyre - we were never going to make it to the water!

Apparently lots of water flowed into Lake Eyre North from the Warburton and Cooper Creeks in February but much of it had dried up. The kids enjoyed getting covered in mud and picking up chunks of salt from the lake bed.

Olivia with a chunk of salt from Lake Eyre

We returned to camp and spent the afternoon doing school work and playing around the waterhole.
We awoke Tuesday morning to a thick fog surrounding us.

The foggy morning.

Thank god we had our flight booked for 3pm as you couldn't see anything! We had a leisurely morning around the waterhole before packing up and driving into Maree after lunch. We wanted to go down towards Lyndhurst to drive up the Strezleki Track so we went to the visitors centre to check it out. Whilst we were doing this and waiting for our washing to get dry the kids enjoyed exploring the old trains from the old Ghan Railway.

We made our way out the airstrip and enjoyed a 1.5hour plane flight over Lake Eyre north & south. It is an amazing view from the air even though there is not a lot of water in the Lake. I am so glad that we did the flight. The views we had were amazing and the colours of the lake and the surrounding land was beautiful!