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Marree Pub

Cliffo

I agree with you.

Great destination. We had a night there with the Postie Bike Challenge in September last year after a lot of drama and broken people on the Birdsville Track.

Easy to get to from the south for anyone not wanting to drive on rough road. jump off point for Lake Eyre.

Lang

Yes, Marree Hotel (which doesn't carry a sign).
I was there overnight in 1977, connecting from a mixed train from Alice Springs into a mixed train to Port Augusta. Ghan made a direct connection.
AFAIK Marree was never a trucking route: Stuart Hwy was much further west, and avoided both Marree and Oodnadatta.
Marree was important as the southern railhead of the stock route from Birdsville.
Today, Marree is very much on the 4wd expedition circuit: an easy approach from the south, junctioning to the famous Birdsville Track to the north east, and the Oodnadatta track following the closed original railway route to the north-west. That hotel features on lots of travel blogs, and is known even by people who have never been there.
Hence, a self-serve beer under covid19 separation rules for cliffo, and his turn now.
Roderick

So wots the story of the Maree man
did they ever find what, who n how




cya

Swishy wrote: So wots the story of the Maree man
did they ever find what, who n how

cya

Yeah... I think they worked out it were Dick Smith who did it................

No, Dick offered a $5,000 reward for the identity of the creator.

No good waiting for me to post a picture as posting a letter is the limit of my capabilities. As regards the Marree Man I was working with earthmoving gear in the general location and got the blame [or credit] for this but there was no way I could have done it. It is my personal view that you would need satellite guidance of some sort to get it as neat as it is and as it was done before guidance became available to the general public I think the army or some organisation did it as an exercise. Also even though it is in a remote area it is near impossible to move machinery around without someone either seeing it or the tracks it would leave. Just my thoughts

cliffo wrote:
.....even though it is in a remote area it is near impossible to move machinery around without someone either seeing it or the tracks it would leave.

Yeah, it were Dick Smith with half a dozen victor lawnmowers hanging off the bottom of his helicopter. If yer looks closely you can see where Dick signed his name in the centre.....

Thinkn now
a few years back
there may have been mention of the U.S. military in the outback n used a grader probly with the scarifiers did a cupla laps around to make Maree Man using saterlite navigation
cya

Was it signed at the top of his legs?
Dick, that is!