It was
an easy drive of about 300km from Yulara to Kings Creek Station. Kings Creek Station is a working
cattle/camel station with facilities for camping. It is the largest exporter of
wild camels in Australia. We spent two nights here. We shared stories with a
family travelling the opposite direction to us who were heading north in a
hurry to avoid the wet season, we toasted marshmallows on a campfire with
another family who were travelling with 5 children – 4 boys and one girl of similar
ages to ours. The children had fun with a baby camel, a calf and a donkey.
On our second day there Boyd and Imogen left
at 6.30am to drive to Kings Canyon (35km away). The walk was too steep and
precipitous for the boys so Lisa stayed at the campsite with them. Boyd and
Immy completed the “rim walk” from the base of the canyon up to the top, 6km along the top and back down again. It was a very steep ascent and a
spectacular walk. They returned to the tent at the Station in the mid-morning,
in time for Lisa to drive to the canyon to do the same walk.
We left early in the morning of our third day
and headed south. We had the intention of driving to Marla where there was a
camping area attached to a roadhouse. This was to be a one night stay to break
the trip to Coober Pedy which was over 750km away.
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