2020 trip – day 6 – Clayton River – Vulkathunha National Park

Another cool morning, about 4 degrees. We are greeted by corellas, brolgas, a heron and a very aerobatic pallid cuckoo. We drop into the Lake Harry ruins, an interesting site, the walls are made from chilsed rock. Its hard to imagine living in such remoteness where water and vegetation is so scarce. That said we noted a geyser in the distance a bore gone wrong or not right. We continue South to Farina Station the site of the ruins of Farina township. Once a major thriving town at the end of the Adelaide rail line it declined in importance when Maree became the end of the rail line and its death knell guaranteed when they moved the railway line further to the west. We drop into Maree to fuel up. Maree is a historic town and its worth spending a day to look around. On on south to Copley to buy the mandatory Quandong pie and then head east into the parched and rugged Vulkathunha National Park. Broad plains have given way to razor sharp ridges of rock and dry wide river beds lined with big gums and smooth hand sized flat rocks. The night is very quiet, nothing stirs.

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