Category: Travel

  • Madi’s Manoeuvres. Marree to Muloorina Station Day 5 – 5 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…

  • Madi’s Manoeuvres. Moolooloo to Marree. Day 4 – 4 June 2024.

    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…

  • Madi’s Manoeuvres. Mt. Mary to Moolooloo. Day 3 – 3 June 2024.

    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…

  • Madi’s Manoeuvres.Mildura to Mt Mary. Day 2 – 2 June 2024.

    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…

  • Madi’s Manoeuvres.Moe to Mildura. Day 1 – 1 June 2024.

    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…

  • Madi’s Manoeuvres. The backstory. Day 1 – 1 June 2024.

    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…

  • Madi’s Manouvres Blog – June 2024.

    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…

  • Day 24. Uber Keith Vline and Uber Barb home. 27 April 2024.

    Slept soundly and up for tea and toast with Keith and Suzie before Keith (and Bobby and Marley) took me to the station.Timetable change since I checked last night so had time for a cuppa before catching 8:54 home.A nice empty quiet carriage home. Burnt the last of my Aus Post 200mg of data with…

  • Day 23. Homeward bound. Well, the big smoke at least. 26 April 2024.

    Showers, final pack up, bags to lobby, breaky, then a short cab ride to Changi Airport. The BEFORE luggage pic was last nights last photo. Here we are packed miraculous into these four. We were ahead of schedule, some Tiger Balm patches purchased to stock the Sloan supplies, then up to lounge, I went to…

  • Day 22. ANZAC day-Lest We Forget. Breaky, Fort Canning, Boat Cruise, Atlas Bar. 25 April 2024.

    We discovered a whole new section of breakfast this am. The service is excellent, of particular note is the Barista by morning/poolside bar person by day, Neo, Aunty Sue ordered coffee yesterday and me tea -Earl Grey yesterday. We ran into Neo while checking out Pool bar and this morning they remembered us and our…