Serpentine Lakes August 8 2025
 
  Eastward. We realise the grader didn't reach the border. But the track still good.
     
  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.

     
  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.

     
  And a different kind of spinifex.

Hummocks instead of circles.

     
  Then back to black oaks.
     
  Then softer sand.
     
  A sign for Djindugara Rockhole. A short distance before the WA/SA border.
     
  A limestone dip with rockhole in the middle.

Isn't nature wonderful.

     
  Sadly no water.

Though perhaps if we dig a bit.

     
  Len Beadell's navigation was by the stars.

He knew where the border is.

We are lazy and rely on gps.

     
  Over the border we enter Mamnugari Conservation Park and Aboriginal Area.

No longer Unnamed.

     
  Across the southern part of one of the Serpentine Lakes.
     
  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. 

     
  We turn north on an old track alongside the lake.

And camp.

     
  A few clouds.
     
  We climb the dune behind the camp.

Camel tracks in the salt.

     
  We think a female fairy wren.
     
  And a mallee with a lake view.
     
  A jacky winter.
     
  Settling in for the night.
     
Voakes Hill August 9 - 11 2025
     
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