It really is a mammoth road, no wonder there is a book about it!
We did stop briefly at Woomera.
It has a manufactured-town-stepford-wives feel to it.
It was built in the 1940's to service the rocket testing range nearby (it covers a huge area). People still live and work there as the testing range is still used for military and other tests.
There are a couple of museums and a park with old rockets in if you are interested in that sort of thing.
We didn't hang about as we were hot-footing it to the Arid Lands Botanic Garden for lunch and a mosey around.
And very nice it was too!
There was a sculpture in the gardens exhibition happening.
As we entered Port Augusta we left the Stuart Highway behind and saw the first sign to Sydney - still over 1500 kms away!
Camp that night was at Spear Creek camping area tucked under the foothills of the Flinders Ranges. A pretty spot with enormous 500 year old river red gums, grass and some old rockers enjoying themselves too loudly.
Then we wound around the country roads to the Barrier Highway.....and through pitstops like Olary and on and on across the border back into New South Wales and to Broken Hill.
But we still had many many miles to go!
Dates: 26/9 to 28/9
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