Roadside camping suggestion Strezlecki Track

Thanks Garth, I was actually looking for somewhere a bit further south.

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Roy

Thanks mate, this is exactly what I was hoping for. A perfect position and looks fabulous.

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Unfortunately Montecollina Bore is not what it used to be. We stayed there over a month ago, no other visitors arrived. No water any more, and looks like it has been that way for a while (see review). The toilet is long gone, and the picnic tables in the shelters are slowly being covered in sand, plus the area is now fenced (in a fashion).
May still suit your purposes of course, but don't expect an oasis.

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John

Thanks John.
I'm not surprised to hear things aren't what they once were, but, it will suit our purpose.
A good break point between Cameron Corner store and Lyndhurst.

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Roy

Thanks Chris, always good to receive confirmation. Yes, I'm familiar with Taipans and had an 'experience' with one many years ago. They're best left well alone.

Hi Roy,

We had no intention of camping along the Strzelecki, but what I did see as some good spots as we travelled down it towards Lyndhurst where the wash-aways and dry creeks that crossed the track in numerous places,
it looked like you could drive up them a 100m or so and camp, plenty of wood, trees, flat, private and a sandy bottom.
Obviously a no go if lots of rain predicted or fallen previously.

Chris, nice photo, but not an Inland Taipan.

More of a Pythons head / body, and scales differ, but can't tell for sure if it has heat pits on the lower jaw, a sure sign of a Python (they can still give a nasty, non venomous bite).

Do you have a higher res photo and can crop out the head a bit ?

Looks like a Woma Python, markings are very light, but desert species adapt in that way.

Unless sure, best to treat all snakes as venomous and back off slowly.

Hi Les,

You may be right, I initially though it had the body of a Python rather than a snake, did some research and considering the area we were in and its colours it seem to add up to a Inland Taipan, but it was very long and thick for a snake, it girth was similar to a mans bicep, not mine!!

Will look up Woma Python.

Sorry don't have any better photos, they were taken by the wife with an iPhone and she was shitting herself, most of them are blurred.

Quite difficult to see the head colour but the body thickness and faint banding is very typical of a Black Headed python. Unlike a taipan, a fairly slow moving animal, much happier to move along than be confronting.
But as Les suggests, better to treat them all as venomous........
mike

I’d suggest Les is correct with his ID of this fellow being a Woma. The BH python has a glossy black head that runs down his neck to his “shoulders”, so to speak. They can be a bit feisty at times, in Qld anyway, while in the Kimberley, they seemed very placid.

The Inland Taipan, while similar with stripes along the body, usually have a black head only, but in some land types the head appears to be more a brown colour. Driving around Diamantina Lakes NP one afternoon looking for cattle, and came across a most magnificent specimen, sunning himself, while scaring passers-by, such as me. Black head, stripes and a thickish body, but not aggressive on this occasion.

By the way Chris, they are world’s most venomous reptile!

Bob

I stepped on one once while looking ahead for a strainer post to put in a gate and not paying attention to where I was putting my feet. I'm here to tell the tale because, luckily the D8 stepped on it first and it had a few kinks in it.