Kings Canyon to Finke River - Day 30, 8/5/2016

It absolutely poured last night and my hopes of the Merennie Loop opening were well and truly dashed, to make matters worse the sealed road was closed again due to flood waters and we had to wait until 2.30pm when I pushed through past the road closed sign... It was a sealed road and the water crossing in question was at 400mm which we drove through yesterday without issue, we can't work out why they still had the road closed.

While we killed time I filled up the car ($1.73 per liter) and dried out our awnings and floor mats as the rain had finally stopped and we had a bit of sunshine. We drove until it was dark and arrived at the free camp on the Finke river where we stopped for the night. The Finke river was swollen with water and a contrast to the very dry river bed we saw 4 or 5 days earlier. No photo's from today it was an uneventful day of back tracking....

Distance Traveled = 347 km
Total distance traveled with camper = 26,163 km 
Total number of nights in the camper = 173

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