Alice Springs To Mount Dare via Lambert Centre

We left Alice Springs just after 9.30am having taken the caravan through the car wash to remove a few layers of dust before adding another layer later on that day.  We arrived at Kulgera at lunchtime, deflated the tyres and set off on the unsealed road towards Finke. It appeared that no one else was opting to travel this route as we didn’t see a car for a very long time. The road was in great condition for a dirt road and it made the journey relatively easy on the car and caravan.

We were making good time so we opted to take a detour down the 4WD track to the Lambert Centre. This marks the exact centre of Australia. It is one of those places that we will never go to again but we can proudly say that we have stood in the centre of Australia. We completed the visitor’s book and these records are held in the National Archives. They started taking record of visitors in 1991 and the first book had 9000 visitors recorded.

We continued onto Mt Dare and made it there by 6.30pm. The last 20-30kms were a little hairy as it was getting dark and was difficult to see the corrugations.  Mt Dare Hotel is the northernmost hotel in South Australia and an iconic outback location. The facilities were pretty basic and all of the buildings were surrounded by a levy bank to prevent flooding during the wet season. We were all pretty tired and settled for an early night.

Lambert Centre - Marks The Exact Centre Of Australia

Mt Dare Hotel - Australian Icon