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Oodnatta Track & Lake Eyre

19th - 20th April 2016 Time to hit the Oodnatta Track. Surely can't be as bad as the Birdsville Track........wrong! You want a 4WD adventure, head out here. Not to mention the flies...have I mentioned the flies??? So we are are on our big adventure with secret map in hand, to find the secret track to the edge of Lake Eyre. Off we go ........ Looks tame enough right??? Not! A snippet shot of the Ghan Railway. The Dingo Fence runs from The Nullabor near Nundroo on the Eyre Penninsular, through S.A., NSW, and ends in the Darling Downs in Qld. It is the longest man made structure in the world. Designed to keep the dingos on one side (western) where there are cattle, and no dingos on the eastern side where there is sheep farming.  It stretches for 5,614 klm. Not far out of Marree there is the bizarre array of art sculpture. No idea about the story behind it, but it was fascinating to wander around in the middle of nowhere checking it out! Gibber, gibber everywhere! We managed to find th...