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May 1 2017
As you might have guessed we are much further up the track - actually in The Alice! But back to where we were further up the track and ....... back out on the road to Coober Pedy. Just as we got out onto the road, a crazy emu dashed out like a heat-seeking missile wobbling on its course before shooting across the road in front of us. Eek and ye gads! Lindsay managed to brake sufficiently so that we missed him, but he and we left a cloud of tail feathers spinning in the air over the road. Phew! The last emu that dashed into our path, we hit and mortally wounded. It's a devastating experience.

Lake Gairdner - often a stunning expanse of shimmering salt.

On our push north we passed extensive 'system' of lakes, some huge like Lake Gairdner and Lake Hart, some with lots of water and mirror-perfect reflections, all with broad skirts of pink mud and presumably salt. There's been rain in the region but not enough to fill these small seas - it comes and goes!

Lake Hart. The reflections although a little difficult to see here, were beautiful, mirror perfect.

The outback is such a surprising collection of wonders and underlying it all is the biggest artesian basin in the world - the Great Artesian Basin, that covers 25% of our continent and which supplies life giving fresh water to so much of inland Oz. We live in an amazing place you'd have to agree.

At the junction of the Stuart Hwy and the road to William Creek on the Oodnadatta Track.