Day 4
Lake
Gairdner to Gawler Ranges – Wednesday September 19th 2012
Up early as there were nasty thunder heads and lightning and thunder. It looked like a storm was heading our way.
The weather seemed to skirt
around us, so after breakfast it was off to do some exploring of Lake Gairdner.
Lake Gairdner is often used for land-speed record trials, but this year it has
been too wet.
The surface looks like a snow
field, and is quite hard to walk on. Many pieces of dead tree are slowly
becoming crystallised by the salt.
David was adventurous and climbed
the hill to get a fantastic view. The Lake looks like a sea with inlets and
islands.
We had a look at Pondanna Shearers quarters which has had some preservation work; the well and tank are in excellent condition, then on to Mt Ive for re-fuelling
.
Mt
Ive is a working station, but also allows access to Lake Gairdner from the
property plus accommodation for travellers. There are 2 grave sites near the
homestead of young children who died in the 1800s.
At last we reached our destination of the Gawler Ranges
We chose to stay at Mattera Well campsite
–No one near us for some 20+
kilometres, just one very large fat copper head or king brown
(
didn’t get that close to it) decided that it preferred our campsite.
After settling ownership, we set
up our camp site; a beautiful area in a gorge with wild flowers just coming
out.
Davo made a ‘nice fire’ and after
tea we did a bit of satellite spotting before bed.
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