Category: Madi’s Manouvres June 2024

Had an amazingly better sleep last night. Awoke about 6:30 and stuck my head out to see the view and very happy to see sunrise colours and the moon through the cars. We are just sitting and waiting to see what’s happening with the roads. We’ve heard that a decision will be made later in…

Rain Overnight. A little on the end of the swag, but no one has rain where it shouldn’t be. Today we are moving on while waiting for updates re track closures following this rain band. There were some robust discussions around a delightful first campfire re possibilities last night. We really want to get to…

A beautiful sunrise to welcome in the frosty morning. The pub and house were beautiful in the bruised colours of the sky. Cleaning my teeth under the tree, I spied a beautiful bunch of gum nuts, and a bunch with some flowers on it. The birds had obviously chewed them off. The colours of both…

Everyone had reasonable sleep, there was a dog barking over the fence which kept a few of awake. I heard it at 4:20 when I woke up warm!!! Then back to sleep till 7:30 pretty happy with that! There was a lot of phaffing this morning to redistribute to Kate’s car and completing our first…

A balmy 8° this morning with sunshine and rain on route to meeting Place at Steve’s in Drouin. Arrived about 8:20 followed by Brian and Ann and Stef. Departed at 8:55.My leading through Melbourne was not up to scratch, missed the Bolte turn off, then took the Old Calder instead of new Calder…and yet they…

Planning for this trip began late 2023. The Madigan Line across the Simpson is a more challenging track evidently and towing of campervan is not allowed. For me this meant sorting out how to camp out of a car again. Madigan Line also requires the carrying of additional fuel which posed another challenge. Preparations included…

An outback trip across the Simpson Desert via the Madigan Line – June 2024. An introduction – 31 May 2024. Following our Antarctic adventure in 2023, there was a planned trip Outback across the Simpson Desert, however Mother Nature had other ideas – with heavy rains in Northern Australia causing floods across the desert. So…