Andamooka to Lake Torrens

Sorry for any inconvenience.

I misread the post as Lake Frome instead of Lake Torrens

Alan

That's fine, Alan.

I often imagine Edward John Eyre standing in disappointment on Mount Hopeless, surveying the sight before him. Lake Frome, Lake Eyre South and Lake Torrens, thinking it was the one, impenetrable, muddy, horseshoe salt lake and calling the whole thing Lake Torrens.

Thanks, John!

"Apparently there is no fee to access the track now. "

Maybe you are referring to the track around the top of Lake Torrens. I just want to go west to the lake. It's about thirty kms.





Thanks,
Laurie.

Thanks Gossy!

If I can't get reliable info from you blokes, I can afford to play it by ear. There's plenty else do out that way.

I reckon we may make Andamooka our base for a week or two. Hope to leave the little van in the park or some such and camp in the tent a few nights.

Thanks, Leigh!

Yes, I know that track. Been that way a couple of times on the quadbike.

The first time out there I couldn't get through the gate for a chain heavy enough to tie up the Queen Mary and a padlock to match.

So I followed the fence west and eventually found an unlocked gate. Wandering along, trying to follow some faint wheel tracks through the salt bush of the swathe between the dunes, I eventually came on a reasonable track which took me over a few dunes and headed south.

Late afternoon I saw a good storm approaching. I new little of the country so had no idea what to expect.

Heading for a safe spot, half way up a sand dune, I got a rope between a myall tree and the bike with a tarp over it and got the tent up in the lulls between squalls.

Got a feed of spagetti and a cuppa on a little gas stove, huddled under the tarp between the tent and the bike.

Coming on dark, the storm was gone to my great relief so I spent a quiet night.

The track took me out to the track you refer to, near Yarloo Bank, and I followed your track out to the lake and camped a couple of nights.

But this time with the Missus and a good, 2wd ute, I'm looking for an easier track. The track I'm hoping to follow, you go straight down the main drag of Andamooka, out past the cemetery and the rubbish tip and keep to the the main track.

It will be a disappointment if we can't get out to the lake, but there's so much to see and photograph, even within walking distance of the end of the bitumen, at Andamooka.

Thanks,
Laurie.