marree photo essay
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The small town of Marree, South
Australia (population 80 according to
the locals in the pub) lies at the
junction of the Birdsville and
Oodnadatta Tracks, 100km south of
Lake Eyre.
For a century Marree was a thriving rail town
with ten times its current population, servicing the
cattle industry as a major station along the
original Ghan Railway.
In 1980, the Ghan service to Alice Springs
was relocated, and the tracks out of Marree have
since been dismantled.
Relics of a purposeful past are littered
throughout the town, the desolation compounded
by the isolation. Signs out of town warn of
Remote Areas Ahead, and recommend travellers
carry two spare tyres and two jacks.
Far from a ghost town, on a Saturday night
the jukebox is working overtime and there’s a
friendly crowd around the pool table at The
Marree Hotel, the town’s only watering hole.
Marree, Outback South AustraliaSM KING