Thread: Roads around Lake Eyre(SA). Anyone been recently? Suitable for oldies on motorbikes?

It all looked pretty good from 30 + thousand feet this morning

Spudboy, you'll be riding up through Roxby then along the Borefield to the Oodnadatta.....unless you have some preference to going via Maree. I do a trip to the Creek/Lake from queensland every year and neither track is ever what you'd call pleasant and both can be full of surprises. The early parts of the Borefield are usually atrociously corrugated and about 30km in you might find sandhills although the excellent rains have almost hidden them and tied the sand down. I think you have the perfect bike to do the trip and I jealously wish you luck.

Well, I think we'll probably head up on the other (eastern) side of Lake Torrens, and spend a night at Parachilna Gorge, as I have good memories of camping there when I was quite a bit younger. Maybe the Parachilna Pub if the girls come too.

Then, on to Maree and the start of the Oodnadatta Track.

Next place I'd like to stop at will be Muloorina Station which seems to have a good rep as a nice campsite (about 50Kms from Maree). From there it is a couple of hours up to the lake apparently.

Might come down the other side via Roxby on the way home. Haven't been to Roxby for 20 years, so I imagine I won't recognise it with all the mining development that's been going on.