Which Lake Eyre?

Hi Fizz,

Different places to my mind. Muloorina is a great place to enjoy the birdlife and make it to Lake Eyre South. Doesn't have the same feeling of remoteness and vastness of the lake as Halligan Bay.

IMHO
Regards
Ian@Mt Dare

I'd do neither.
You'll get a good idea what the big lake is like when you call in at Lake Eyre South on the way up the Oodnadatta track.

Muloorina has a good camp area and a bore water "hot spring", but its out of the way, and the camp area is still about an hour short of the Lake. Depends on whether you want to spend a day at Muloorina or spend the time doing some of the other very interestig stuff on the Oodnadatta track.

Cheers
phil

Thanks guys.

We might just do Halligans Bay unless we have unexpected time available.

Ian, we hope to see you at Mt Dare sometime around mid August if we or the vehicles haven't died before that! Between Lake Eyre and your place we'll (hopefully) have done the Painted Desert, the AB to Neale Jn and Neale Breakaways, the CS and Sydney Yeo Chasm, the abandoned GB (no permit back yet), Finke Gorge, Chambers Pillar and Lambert's Centre!!!

Willem suggested that the old Ghan route from Rodinga to Finke is pretty rough and suggested we could also look at Chambers>back to Hugh SR>Stuart H>Kulgera>Finke Rd. Do you have any current info on the "direct" route from Chambers to Finke (esp the Finke Crossing), and then from Finke to Mt Dare?

Thanks again,

Graham.

Well if I could only do one I would probably do Muloorina.

The camping is very pleasant and if you have been on the road a while the swim/paddle in the Farina Creek is refreshing.

Where you access the lake from Muloorina is near where Donald Campbell broke the world land speed record back in the 60's so there is a bit of European history there. Maybe it was just me, I have seen the Bluebird in the museum in London and seeing where it became famous was kind of nice.

I also had the priveledge of meeting the property owner. He got into trouble with his dad for playing in the Bluebird as a kid.

I would go to Muloorina but for a particular reason. If yo are not interested in that aspect of the place it would make the decision more difficult.

Duncs

We were there about 6 weeks ago . We renamed it "Lake McFly " . Make sure you take some fly nets for your heads . Don't just rely on spray's , they drank Bushman Tropical and asked for more . Never seen flyes that bad anywhere . Cheers Errol

Hi there Fizz,

Halligan's Bay is within an easy drive from William Creek, which in turn is a good place to base yourself.

Halligan's claim to fame is that is is the lowest point in Australia. (about 15m below sea level from memory).
The drive to the Lake is not without interest and you get a good view from the top of the escarpment, before dropping down to the salt pan.

The fact that there is seldom water in the Lake does not mean much. Just walking out onto the Lake's surface is quite interesting and you can visually inspect the thickness of the salt crust. Your fottmarks may also be left for a very long time.
In fact, mine are probably still there from 18 months ago. They are size 9's.