Day 5 - Wed 25th Farina to Algebuckina
Woke up at about 5ish for a call of nature and it was beautiful clear skies, only to wake up at 7:30 to be greeted by thick fog and another wet pack up, we're getting good at them. Dried everything as best as possible and enjoyed a lovely shower before hitting the road around 9:30 a bit later than planned and in a bit of a rush as it was going to be a long drive up the Oodnadatta track to meet up with the others at Algebuckina, which is where my problems arose, more on that soon. A stop in st Marree to fuel up the car and ourselves and a photo at the start of the track and we were off up Oodnadatta for the first time! It was a lot wider than I imagined it would be and a pretty easy drive most of the way, we stopped at Plane Henge gor a look and found Mandrake taking a heap of photos. A quick chata they were off and us too, we seemed to leap frog them a couple of times as we stopped for photo opps, we stopped and checked out Lake Eyre south and then pushed onto William Creek for fuel and just in time for lunch. We arrived at Algebuckina about 4:30 ish and checked out the bridge looking for bickiematt and lindamc, couldn't find them until another group pointed out that there was more campsites on the other side of the track and there we found them setup. So we found ourselves a spot and setup when my daughter said "dad I like what you have put on the back window it looks good" then I found that a rock had shattered the rear window because I had forgotten to put the corflute in place in my rush that morning, with only the tint holding it together. With over 250km of track still to go I was not confident of it holding together. I had few choice words with myself and after a few beers all was good again
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