We left Birdsville early in the morning in pretty hellish winds and headed for Lake Eyre which was half dry but still interesting to fly over. One plane in our group flew low enough that they were able to spot wild camels in the sand dunes. Sadly we were a bit too high to see them, and probably didn't look carefully enough:

I first flew over big red, where we had gone for sunset the previous evening

by then I had a nice tailwind and was doing 159kts on a 125kt plane

when flying down lake eyre, I clocked a peak 169kt in level flight at 2500ft. Not bad for a 172 :)

finally arrived at William Creek

William Creek, population 12, doubled in size when we arrived for lunch :)

special planes with magnetic detection probes to do land surveying for minerals

most people arrive to William Creek the hard way, through harduous 4WD tracks

After lunch and a refuelling, we went to Coober Pedy via the very pretty Painted Hills:

one of our pilots did some low level flying

pretty

We then landed at Coober Pedy, which we visited in details the next day.