We then continued on along the Oodnadatta track until arriving at Algebuckina Bridge. The Algebuckina Bridge was built in the 1880's to allow the Old Ghan Railway to span the Neales Rivers south of Oodnadatta. It is still the largest single bridge in South Australia.
This is the remains of a car that tried to drive across the rail bridge when the river was in flood. The car got halfway across when the train came along. It got pushed backwards and ended up in the water. Apparently the driver survived but his dog didn't fair too well.
We got another good photo of this wedge tailed eagle. We had to back up for this one and were expecting him to fly off.
Soon after we rolled into Oodnadatta.
Not much to see or do here. We tried to have a look at the railway museum but it was all locked up. The main draw card in town is the pink roadhouse. It is pretty similar to most other roadhouses except everything is pink...
The original plan was from Oodnadatta to follow the Old Ghan railway on the dirt all the way into Alice Springs. But we were starting to think we may be pushing it for time for Rick to fly home Sunday morning. So we changed our plans and back tracked a little from Oodnadatta and headed out to the Painted Desert.
It was overcast and a very grey sky as we were driving the track. We even got some rain but only really enough to keep the dust down.
We weren't able to camp at the painted desert but there was camping 12km further on at Arckaringa Homestead. We set up here for the night and watched a big storm do a big arc around us. We only got a small amount of rain but we did get a good lightning show!
This is where we camped.
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