We woke up this morning to find that we had lost a dust cap on one of the trailer wheels probably coming through the rough part of the track out from Kenmore Park. We couldn’t proceed until we got a new one as the trailer wheel will seize up once the dust gets in there. Our choices were to try and buy one from the local servo, find one at the wreckers or…… play Bush Mechanics. Mr ingenuity, Bren, decided to have a go and managed to fashion a reasonable dust cap out of the bottom of a water bottle, duct tape and zip ties. Not a bad effort really! Been wandering what happens to all those burned out car wrecks (and we’ve seen probably in excess of 200), we spotted this 3 trailer truck just before leaving Marla. Seems that someone does actually collect them every now and then. On our way to the other side of the Stuart Hwy to Oodnadatta now. The landscape is decidedly different with a lot more of a desert look. Very dry pale instead of red sand. We got the keys to the local govt house here in Oodnadatta and so everyone has their own room (and bed) again. I have really gotten used to the swag and opted for that instead. Oodnadatta is very deserted. The old Ghan used to run through here in its heyday but now its just dry and dusty with a few old railway carriages lying around. There are not many street lights out here and no moon tonight which makes for an exceptional night sky. Tomorrow is a travel day for us as we need to make our way out to Marree which is about 400km from here. We will probably take an easy trip with a few stops in between and may yet spend our first night sleeping under the stars.
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