Above: Just me and my shadow alone in the desert.
We are well and truly in the outback now. What an experience it is to rattle along 200km of dirt road watching the landscape change before our eyes. The outback is far from boring.....the plant life, sand colour , sky colour, bird life and evidence of human existance changes from hour to hour. We stayed at a oasis in the middle of the desert called Coward Springs, once a railway siding for the original Ghan. It once had a pub run by a couple of Afgan brothers but now there is only the used glass wine bottles and beer bottles and rusty food cans as evidence. The owner Prue and her partner have installed a spa to harness the natural spring bubbling up from the Artesan Basin. What a welcome gem and how bizarre to be chatting with fellow campers sitting in a spa in the middle of the desert.