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We live in Adelaide, South Australia and enjoy travel in the Australian outback in our Oka 4WD motorhome, hence the blog title.



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Tuesday 16 June 2015

Farina, a Ghost Town Reemerging from its past


We've visited and stayed at Farina just off the Oodnadatta Track many times and its fascination as a ghost town never leaves us.

Once laid out as a busy rural town of several hundred residents with a grid of streets, businesses and a railway station, it gradually succumbed to the remote harshness of the desert environment but was only finally abandoned in the 1960's.



The Transcontinental Hotel at Farina:


This is an ABC Landline report of Farina and its re-emergence from the past.

http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2013/s3802729.htm

You can also visit the Farina Restoration Project here.