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Angus Downs - 'desert oak country'
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After visiting Kings Canyon we continued our trip through the Red Centre on the sealed Luritja Road. Being sealed, meant less adventurous and besides the scenery became less hilly and more flat. Right and left of the road we saw only the same desert landscape with lots of desert oaks and red sand dunes.

After 150 km’s we made a stop at a rest area near 'Angus Downs'. Again desert oaks with some shadow during our stop. It was funny to see how first big birds and later smaller ones came to a tin of water, which we filled from a water tank. It was for us a miracle that they could live here at all.

Along the Lasseter Highway (with an average of 1 oncoming car in 15 minutes) we made a stop at a salt lake, before we caught sight of Mount Conner (Artilla). This is the most unknown monolith in the Red Centre, even bigger than Uluru. There was a turnoff and we tried to come closer to get a better view, but this road was so bad that we had to turn round after 10 minutes (in spite of having a 4WD).

It is possible to visit Mount Conner from Curtin Springs Station (www.curtinsprings.com), our accommodation that evening. This leg of our trip (about 180 km’s) was by far the less interesting and scenic part in the Red Centre.

Directions: Luritja Road and Lasseter Highway.