Serpentine Lakes | ![]() |
August 8 2025 |
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Eastward. We realise the grader didn't reach the border. But the track still good. | |
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Though this little obstacle wasn't nice. I misjudged it and drove into it with left wheels in the hole. I stopped when the significant lean to the left became a little too much for comfort. I chose to climb up the left and straddle the hole. An alternative would have been to reverse and follow all the sensible people who drove on the right. |
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Shorter vegetation. The single line in the sand on the left of the track is from a mountain bike. With very fat wheels. We met a couple with bikes on their landcruiser at Bishop Riley's Pulpit. One rode while the other drove. At least 3 hours cycle per day. |
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And a different kind of spinifex. Hummocks instead of circles. |
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Then back to black oaks. | |
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Then softer sand. | |
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A sign for Djindugara Rockhole. A short distance before the WA/SA border. | |
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A limestone dip with rockhole in the middle. Isn't nature wonderful. |
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Sadly no water. Though perhaps if we dig a bit. |
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Len Beadell's navigation was by the stars. He knew where the border is. We are lazy and rely on gps. |
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Over the border we enter Mamnugari Conservation Park and
Aboriginal Area. No longer Unnamed. |
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Across the southern part of one of the Serpentine Lakes. | |
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Salt. There's a long string of lakes, like a string of beads. We are nearly at the northern end. In days gone by, the Palaeozoic (250-500 million years ago) they were part of a drainage channel. But no longer. We didn't look for, so we didn't find, any tektites. |
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We turn north on an old track alongside the lake. And camp. |
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A few clouds. | |
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We climb the dune behind the camp. Camel tracks in the salt. |
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We think a female fairy wren. | |
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And a mallee with a lake view. | |
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A jacky winter. | |
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Settling in for the night. | |
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August 9 - 11 2025 |
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