It's been a long time since we have been camping so Trace and I packed up the cruiser and spent Easter this year traveling down to Mount Dare and Dalhousie Springs South Of Alice.
Mount Dare is on the Western side of the Simpson Desert and Dalhousie Springs is just a bit east into the desert. We left Alice and headed south to Santa Teresa then to Old Andado Homestead for the first stop of the trip. Old andado is the home of Molly Clark, a bush legend in this part of the world. The homestead has been left in state, as though Molly just walked away from it. All her stuff is there with not a thing touched. Fantastic!
After Old Andado we headed for Mount Dare and onto Dalhousie Springs. We had a swim and decided to go back to Mount Dare as the flies were horrific out there as it had just rained and the air was thick with baby flies.
After having a few beers at the Mount Dare roadhouse we spent the night in the old meat hanging shed and left for Fink, and aboriginal community, the next morning. From Fink we headed north back to Alice along the old Gahn Railway track. All up and awesome drive and Trace and I had a ball.
I Also had a chance to test out a new battery, charger and solar setup I have installed in the car. It worked a treat, we have enough power for just about anything in the car now.
