"Your great Outback escape awaits you. Deep in the heart of wild and isolated country you will find the frontier town of Birdsville. Situated between the eastern edge of the Simpson Desert, the vast gibber plains of the Sturt Stony Desert to the south and rich in Channel Country to the north. It was once … Continue reading Birdsville the Modern Big Smoke
Big Bad Red
Chris was keen to do the run up Big Red. He took an easy track to drop me off at the top, so I could take pics. He lowered tyre pressure even more and went back down. View of the road heading towards Birdsville. View back the way we had come over the Simpson Desert. … Continue reading Big Bad Red
Poeppel Corner
Another one of the markers showing distance, with someone's added creation. We did the slight detour into Poeppel Corner, that's the three corners for us now, great view over the lake. Poepple Corner marks the junction of three states. We popped back onto the small section of French Line to finish it all before hooking onto … Continue reading Poeppel Corner
French Line continued
We decided to get up early and hopefully make Birdsville and back to the comfort of the trailer. Not that we have been uncomfortable in the tent or on the air bed, in fact we were quite comfy. Just setting it all up was getting a bit thin. Even though we had made things as … Continue reading French Line continued
French Line
The French Line is the shortest, most used and most difficult track across the Simpson. The French Line was name after a French Petroleum Company who put the line in, in the 1960's. It stretches over 1100 sand dunes to Poeppel Corner. We were told the French Line was chopped up and it certainly was. … Continue reading French Line
Back across the Simmo
Picture this, after a refreshing night sleep, you wake to a brisk cool morning. You don the swimmers, take a brisk walk to the hot springs before breakfast. You dip into the warm waters with steam rising above the surface and little welcome swallows darting about just above the water looking for their breaky. You … Continue reading Back across the Simmo
Old Andado Station
We were told by a traveller at Dalhousie that the road up to Old Andado was really good and they had gone at 70-80kms an hour but you could go even faster. There are two ways to Old Andado, one is up the Binns Track, the other is via Charlotte Waters and New Crown. One … Continue reading Old Andado Station
Mt Dare Hotel
The word had obviously spread that coming the way we did was the better road to Mt Dare as there was a bit of traffic on it going both ways. The road was pretty good, apart from the last 10km to Mt Dare. We filled up both tanks at Mt Dare, the guy had a … Continue reading Mt Dare Hotel
Oasis in the desert
It was a very quiet night apart from the dingoes howling. Yummy pancakes for breakfast while we discussed our plans for the next few days. First up was secure the tent as we had some serious soaking to do. A soak in the hot spring before we had morning tea. Then we did a walk … Continue reading Oasis in the desert
Dalhousie
We were up early and on the road by 9am wanting to be at Dalhousie for lunch. The small section of the French Line we went on had much smaller sandhills than we had been on the day before but they were far more chopped up. Some big holes in the dunes. We made Purni … Continue reading Dalhousie