" I discovered a spring of fresh water, in which we voluptuously laved our faces, hands, and feet."
We left Coward springs and visited the natural mound springs. These were like nothing I have ever seen, weird mounds in the desert with little verdant patches at the top surrounded by salt plains dissected by streams from the springs. We proceeded on to Lake Eyre South where we could see a sliver of water way off the shore. From there we want on via Curdimurka and had fun exploring an old Ghan station and railway bridge, Jen did some surface surveying archaeology there.
We stayed the night at Farina ruins. Farina ( Latin for Flour ) had great plans in the 1800s to be a major area for wheat growing. Unfortunately they made these plans in a particularly wet year and never managed to grow wheat. The campsite was wonderful we shared a campfire with a generous older couple who regaled us with tales of the Birdsville track but unfortunately interspersed these with blatantly racist comments.
Would have been fun to have our leftist rainbow warriors and right wing grey nomads at the same camp.
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