Kingoonya Way Outback

A corrugated road promptly called for tyre deflation and led us from Glendambo to the atmospheric, bush community of Kingoonya.

Lisa is doing reno on the nifty campground, just off the dusty, main street, once reputed to be the widest street in Australia.

The local pub sits on the corner and serves drinks, as well as dynamite burger and fried flathead dishes to an audience of us, an elderly bushie couple and their rolypoly dog ridiculously fond of a tummy rub.

The town was once a railway hub for several hundred sheep farmers in the early 1900s. The road to Alice Springs used to go this way too until government rerouted it 41kms East to Glendambo. Today, the Ghan and Indian-Pacific railway lines see 80 trains a week pass by without stopping. However, the community of 14 inhabitants parties hard, judging by all the signatures covering the pub's walls. The annual cricket match sees locals making use of the wide street as a pitch.