The current 2023 trip, has been a long time in the planning. Myself and 3 mates are heading for Antarctica and South America.
Posts in reverse order below.
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Madi’s Manoeuvres. Algebuckina Waterhole to Mt Dare Hotel via Dalhousie Springs. Day 7- 7 June 2024.
Up and about. Lots of moisture in the air so wet awnings and tents to dry out as best we could while having breakfast and packing up. Headed off to have a look at the Algebuckina Bridge over the Neale River and back onto the Oodnadatta Track. Fuel and coffee stop at the Pink Roadhouse
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Kate is sleeping in a black swag, as we were milling around over breaky, Mary noticed some paw prints on the side. Perfect cat prints. I did hear Kate moving around more than any other night. Perhaps it was the visitor. With Half Post Bay to Lake Eyre closed, today we head back towards Marree
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Travel adventures with Nicola & co. 