Photo Outback

The head of Station Creek is about 20km upstream from Lake Torrens in outback South Australia.

Not so far downstream from the head of Station Creek is Bosworth Homestead, built near the creek, the only fresh water point on the Bosworth Station. Down the creek a bit the fresh water turns to salt and dries up to dry salty waterholes, between floods.

At Bosworth Homestead, Station Creek has been dammed with a huge excavation and wall. A high revving desil pump provides water for the homestead and the tanks and troughs along a 30km pipeline, running well onto Andamooka Island, in Lake Torrens.

There was a reasonable camping spot by a salt waterhole on Station Creek, a few kilometres from Lake Torrens. The ground was fairly flat, a bit sandy and with a couple of fallen myall trees for firewood.

The image of the tenacious myall tree, well up on the bank of Station Creek, was captured a few kilometres upstream from my camp in the late afternoon.

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Google Earth map of my camp on Station Creek. If you head south west till you come to a junction in the creek, that's about the spot where the myall tree clings to the creek bank.