Monday 21st August Today we left the caravans behind and decided to drive up to Coongie Lakes.   These are part of a vast river and lake system… Read more “Around Innamincka and then to Tibooburra”

Birdsville to Innamincka Friday 18th August On our way to Birdsville today, we passed the ruins of the Carcony Homestead built in 1877 and eventually abandoned in… Read more “Boulia to Birdsville to Innamincka”

Thursday 17th August Well, in the end I didn’t take any photos in Boulia which is a pity ‘cos it is a really quite well presented little… Read more “Boulia to Bourke”

Forgot the map! https://1drv.ms/i/s!AksnrQT2cvoGxTwVdUHhj6nmKoO3

Sunday 13th August Left Alice at 1000 this morning after a last minute dash to the supermarket to get Pat’s breakfast juice which we had forgotten to… Read more “Alice to Boulia”

Hi Everyone, Sorry you’ve had a flurry of posts recently, unfortunately we have not had a decent internet connection until we arrived in Alice. Map update https://1drv.ms/i/s!AksnrQT2cvoGxTsR_GB7zh76DN8U … Read more “Winter 2017 Days 11,12&13”

This morning it seems warmer, which is just as well as I failed to set the diesel heater timer properly and it didn’t start so I had… Read more “Winter 2017 Day 10”

We left Docker River this morning expecting the road to be bad, we hadn’t expected atrocious, seriously the Northern Territory needs to do something about this section.   … Read more “Winter 2017 Day 9”

Another beautiful morning in the bush. A leisurely start this morning we have no particular points of interest along this section of the GCR that we or… Read more “Winter 2017Day 7 / 8”

Our camp site last night was at The Breakaways, some 30 ks up the GCR east of Laverton.   There are places called the ‘The Breakaways’ all over… Read more “Winter 2017 Day 5”