Day 6 Lyndhurst to Marree

We are back into some respectable distance on the bikes today with about 85km to be covered, most of it on unsealed roads.

With some good sleeps on a lovely grassed campground under our belts, we got away just after 7am. A couple of kms out of town we stopped to check out the Ochre Pits where the local aborigines have been digging ochre and using or trading it for hundreds of years.

Setting off again, Pete had stack number 2 of the trip, but fortunately, again it was only a minor fall - although still hard enough to crack the screen on the handheld radio.

We covered the ground quickly after that on a dirt road that was delectably smooth. After a little over an hours riding, we turned off to take a look at the ruins and historic sites at Farina. The displays maintained by local and interstate volunteers are terrific and well worth a look. Farina was once a bustling railhead boasting two pubs, a police round of thousands of kms and a few months, and a railway station.

We refilled our water bottles and then headed on for the 45 odd kms in front of us. We enjoyed another sealed section of road, but as the temperature continued to rise, all the lads began to flag a little. When we rolled into Marree a little after midday, we were happy campers.

We whiled away the afternoon napping, writing postcards, drinking coffee and enjoying a beer at the Marree Hotel. With the $25 buffet dinner under our belts, we are heading to bed in preparation for Easter.