Good day; bad roads (again). A mix of rough stony tracks and soft sandy patches. We've had enough rough roads for this year! Visited Innamincka & the Oil Fields before heading south over the border into NSW to the Packsaddle Roadhouse, 175km north of Broken Hill.
Highlights from today (Thu-13-Aug):
- sunrise over the Cooper Creek
- Farmer's Union Iced Coffee at Innamincka
- self-guided tour of three Cooper Basin Oilfields near Tickalara, with expert commentary from Techo
- friendly welcome at Packsaddle roadhouse & good chat with Packsaddle Pete on the front verandah
- great showers at Packsaddle - they even have those shaggy bathmats!
- another still evening, but jumpers are on tonight!
Lowlights:
- Iced Coffee was frozen so we had to wait for it to thaw
- laptop mouse escaped - most likely in the oilfields, we think
- the sub tank fuel gauge works - but for the life of us, we can't work out where we "lost" 30 litres of diesel
- have dug our jeans out from the bottom of our bags ready for our return to South Australia tomorrow
Tomorrow we plan to get an early start, stock up on Iced Coffee and knock off the remaining 690km to home in Adelaide.
Tosh & Techo
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