We left Tinbooburra and travelled to Cameron Corner, a very dusty drive. We have now stood on three states at the same time. We spent the night at Cameron Corner and after viewing the shared bathroom asked for a private one to ourselves. As you opened the door to the shared bathroom, there was a urinal with only a half cover across it, three toilets with doors and plastic curtains for the two showers all in one room. The private one was lovely. There is a mice plague at the moment and we ended up with one in our van which Tony heard at 1.30am.
This is the post where all states meet.
This is Cameron Corner Store and Caravan Park
We then went to Innaminka via Oricom, Epsilon and the first 120 k's were fairly ordinary. The road was cut up by cattle and horses overnight and it was an interesting drive. We were told to go this way to do the round trip rather than going up and back the same way. There is no camping in the town so you have to camp about 20k's out of town and we were on the river. A toilet and no showers, if you want a shower you have to go back to town and it is $2 for 3 minutes. We camped on Cooper Creek at the Gullyamurra Waterhole and as you can see it was pretty ordinary and we did it hard. When we woke up in the morning we opened the curtains and lay there looking at this.
This was the view from our van. The river was full of Pelicans.
We took a drive to the Dig Tree - Where Burke and Willls buried their provisions and there is a tree next to it with a carving of Burke's face. This was about 70k's from Innaminka and across the border in Qld.
The Dig Tree
A monument to Burke.
Burke's face carved on a tree.
We then went back near our campsite and off on a side track to Burke's Grave.
This is the sunset at Cameron Corner.
We left Innaminka and headed down to Leigh Creek, stayed there Tuesday night and are now in Clare.
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