Thursday 10th March 2022
Today we farewelled Aunty Bec from Alice Springs.
We packed the van and got on our way. We headed south on the Stuart Hwy towards Erldunda.
The landscape was absolutely breath taking. The West MacDonnell Ranges were rolling by and the colours were amazing!!
Out of nowhere we saw Desert Oak trees everywhere.
We travelled until we hit the turn off for Lasseter’s Hwy. On the corner was a roadhouse called Erldunda Desert Oak Roadhouse.
We got our to stretch our legs and have lunch. The first thing we noticed was the increased presence of flies. We went into the shop and then went to look at the emus on the emu farm.
At this site we also learnt that we were standing at the closest point, on The Outback Way, to the centre of Australia.
Erldunda
Erldunda is nothing more than a roadhouse (petrol, food and toilets) and a good, reasonably priced accommodation option at the Desert Oaks Resort. Its appeal lies in its strategic location at he corner of the Stuart and Lasseter Highways.
Erldunda Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station. It occupies an area of 3,108 km2 that carried a herd of 6,500 head of Santa Gertrudis cattle in 2010.
The property was established in the 1870s by Richard Warburton who stocked it in 1884, and the property remained with the Warburton family until the 1920s.
After our stop we travelled West to a small rest area in the Kernot Ranges. Here we set up for the night. Getting out of the car we were surrounded by black flies. Lucky we had out fly nets.
Eva got out her new detector and went treasure hunting with Madeline. Together they found; a .22 shell casing, 4 bottle tops, a tent peg, a screw, a metal ‘dodad’, melted aluminium foil, 2 pull tabs and a $2.
Jason sent up his drone for a few pictures of the area.
We then came in, cleaned up and had dinner. After the girls went down, we watched the sunset.
Tomorrow
We head off to visit Uluṟu and The Olga’s for 3 nights.
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