Track from the Alice to Dalhousie

I have just travelled Finke to Chambers Pillar, after having stayed at Kalgera and went to see the geographic centre of Australia.

Leaving Finke I was directged by way of a prominent red arrow on to the left hand track, which I followed for some 50km along a severely undulating road, soft sand etc. A few forays onto the right hand track revealed a heavily corrugated road, and I therefore assumed it was for Finke bound traffic.

Some 50km along this undulating track my wife commented that she had planned that we would be in Alice by evening, At the rate we were travelling I doubted we would be in Alice by Christmas. In the end I threw caution to the wind and took the corrugated right track.

It was only then that I realised I had been travelling along the Finke Desert Race track and we were now on the proper (but corrugated) main road. Our speed picked up and we made Chambers Pillar before nightfall. The Desert Race had been hald two weeks earlier. For me it was a monumental blonde moment, despite having grey hair.

Jack

Thanks Gents
Poitr