There is one thing that stopped us dead in our Tracks

Hi All

If all things had worked out as they should have, Fiona and I should have been up on the Birdsville Track visiting Jason and Patsy on Etadunna Station.

We could only get as far as Leigh Creek and it rained all the way from Clare. A wet night in the swag under the awning and next morning a quick phone call to Patsy and see said it was raining up at Etadunna and no sign of letting up. I then hit the internet and Marree had over 20mm of rain and 44mm of rain in Leigh Creek.

All roads north were now all closed and we were now told we would not be able to get back to Hawker due to all the creeks were up on the main road. We knew that there was mega rain still coming, so we took the punt and headed south.



The further south we headed, there was not one creek that had not gone over the road, some higher than others.



None of the crossings were any problems until we were on 86 kilometres north of Hawker on the main highway were the Brachina Creek crossing the main road.





After nearly and hour and a half wait, it was time for this 80 tonne road train to give it a go.



It was still flowing far too for any four wheel drive to even think of crossing and this clouds to the east were dumping mega more rain up in the Flinders, which would end up here in the coming hours. Half an hour later the first four wheel drive crossed, followed by all the four wheel drive. None on the normal passenger vehicles had no chance what so ever, so one can only think that they spent the night at the crossing.



We made it back home to dry out everything and hopefully will head back to the Flinders early this week.

Cheers


Stephen