Left Oodnadatta heading for Dalhousie , the road not too bad stopped at Pedirka ruins and the wind had picked up . The road started to get very stoney and corrugated which slowed us down considerably. Arrived at Dalhousie ruins and looked around, what a hard life trying to run cattle and live off the land out here. They also tried their hand at growing date palms and Lucerne , but failed, a lot of their water came from the mound springs .
We pushed on to Dalhousie Springs and on arrival at the camp ground we were in a bit of a sand storm , with the wind blowing we went and looked at the spring and the water hole was a lot bigger than we thought and was hot. We decided to push on as the sand would have made camping impossible. Mount Dare was our next stop, well the road got worse and it took us 2 hours to travel 65k's .When we arrived at the Mount Dare Hotel we had enough corrugations for today so we went in and had a drink and organised our campsite.
Mount Dare is a Hotel in the middle of nowhere with fuel, showers , toilets, campground and a repair shed it is on the edge of the Simpson Desert and is the last stop before crossing. They sell on average $60,000 of fuel every 3 weeks at $2.45 a litre.
From Mount Dare we followed the old Ghan line through finke , where they run the desert races , all the way up to Chambers Pillar where we camped for the night. The road was hard going being sand most of the way so the landcruiser had to work hard. We set up camp and campfire we walked out to view the pillar at sunset.
After a pleasant camp and a walk out to view the pillar at sunrise we pushed on to Alice Springs where we stayed at the Big 4 van park to catch up on washing and to clean a bit of dust and dirt off the car and camper.
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| Fueling up at Mount Dare |
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| Old Ghan Road from Finke |
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| Old Ghan Line Engoordina Siding |
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| The Castle at Chambers Pillar Reserve |
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| Chambers Pillar |
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