There were very mixed messages about the roads out of Birdsville particularly when you turn south for Innamincka. We headed east to Betoota ruins with fingers crossed. When we got there we discovered we had lost all our water in the tank, thanks to the razor edged stone road.
It sort of fitted with the feel of Betoota. When the publican shut the pub in 1997 that was it.
I felt really sad as I stood on the verandah looking out at the cricket pitch. You could almost hear the people chatting as they had a drink after a game on the pitch or on the two weed covered tennis courts.
Mt St Leonard Station homestead is within view from the pub so they must have missed it when it closed.
Now they are building a by pass road.

It must have been a committed community that put down this pitch in the middle of nowhere.