The Marree School went well and we bid adieu to our new friends and headed off to Leigh Creek about 120km away. We arrived on time at 12:30 with nothing much of interest in between apart from a lovely rest stop at Copley where indulged in a real coffee and a really nice meat pie. We completed the work at 3:30pm and then were back on the road. This time though we headed into the Flinders ranges and the landscape changed quite significantly to rocky mountain sides, trees (green, live ones) and a beautiful winding mountain road. Suddenly there were kangaroos, wallabies and emus everywhere! After taking a few hundred (exaggerationJ) shots of these I said to George that he had organized everything well in terms of the wildlife except that I hadn’t seen an Echidna yet. About a minute later as we rounded a bend there was an Echidna obliviously making its way across the track. We pulled over immediately and spent the next 20 minutes doing a photo shoot .The Echidna was very cooperative. We continued on through the mountains, dodging the odd kangaroo with a death-wish and arrived at Hawker around dinner time. The local served up a beautiful scotch fillet and the rest of the boys decided on the local surf-and-turf variant. The last night on the road for us and I am looking forward to getting back to civilization, a shave, shower, and some fresh seafood.
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