Because we arrived at Halls Creek late in the day the day before we continued straight on to Old Halls Creek where we had planned to camp for the night, so we didn’t spend any time in Halls Creek then. We cooked our dinner that night huddled between the two trailers trying to escape the relentless cold wind.
The strong cold winds were still blowing this morning having blown all night. Chatting to one of the semi permanent, gold prospectors at the caravan park he said that this weather was crazy and unusual for this time of the year.
We checked out all the ruins of Old Halls Creek town.
The ruins of the old post office were being protected with an iron roof and behind a wire fence. Just as well else they may have been washed away before now. They had been constructed with spinifex and ant bed mix to make the mud.
The street signs were still in place in the middle of nowhere
But it was a bit strange that there were several Connor and Durack Street signs.
We stopped off to look at the Wall of China – an interesting seam of quartz in surrounding granite. You can see why it is called the Wall of China
We went back into Halls Creek to refuel and to check on the condition of the roads at the Visitors Centre. The advice was that we would not be able to go right through on the Tanami Track due to flooding of the Todd in Alice so we decided we would head back out through Old Halls Creek and west along the Duncan Highway to the NT border then on to the Buntine Highway.
We stopped off at Palm Springs along the way and then Saw Pit Gorge for a lunch stop.
It was then just miles and miles of gravel road and open country
with no other traffic until two road trains came from the other direction
We stopped off for the night at a designated rest area just over the border and set up camp in the red dirt. It was still very cold and windy
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