Australien 25°59’60” S 135°11’55” E
18. Juni 2021 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
We have officially started the Simpson desert part of your trip entering the first of four parks that we pass through in three different states.
AustralienState of South AustraliaWitcherrie Mound26°25’17” S 135°30’10” E
18. Juni 2021 in Australien ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Camped for the night at Dalhousie springs beautiful place made even better by the hot springs. It’s like a warm bath only about 50 times the size and it never goes cold.
AustralienState of South AustraliaPurni Bore26°17’5” S 136°5’53” E
19. Juni 2021 in Australien ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Smaller and hotter spring than Dalhousie but unlike Dalhousie it’s not a natural spring. Miners drilled through to and then capped the spring but the cap degraded over time and so it became theWeiterlesen
AustralienState of South AustraliaMacumba 1 Oil Well26°26’35” S 136°51’21” E
19. Juni 2021 in Australien ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
First camp fire for the trip, won’t be able to have too many as we can’t collect wood out here. We are camped for the night with no one around in fact we haven’t seen another car since about 1pmWeiterlesen
Australien 26°23’56” S 137°38’43” E
20. Juni 2021 in Australien ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
I drove today, all day on the dunes it got so bumpy at times my butt left the seat, luckily I’m short enough I didn’t knock myself out on roof. I did it though and we didn’t get bogged so winWeiterlesen
AustralienState of QueenslandDiamantina26°16’17” S 138°7’16” E
21. Juni 2021 in Australien ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
So not much happened today just lots of driving though we did see a water hole we were not expecting surrounded by lots of tiny birds with some obvious camel traffic though we are yet to see an actualWeiterlesen
AustralienState of South AustraliaLake Poeppel25°59’49” S 137°59’56” E
22. Juni 2021 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
We were in three places at once today at Poeppel corner where NT, SA and QLD meet. Benny bear even got to sign his name in the visitor book.
AustralienState of QueenslandDiamantina25°52’48” S 139°2’51” E
23. Juni 2021 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
We made it through the Simpson and conquered Big Red. The way Jenson was acting you would think he personally drove the entire trip.
AustralienState of QueenslandBouliaBoulia Airport22°54’41” S 139°54’40” E
24. Juni 2021 in Australien ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
We camped overnight at Boulia and spent the morning exploring the Min Min experience and homestead museum which included dinosaur fossils.
I learnt of a Matron who was essentially the only medicalWeiterlesen
AustralienState of QueenslandMount IsaPioneer20°43’25” S 139°30’56” E 25. Juni 2021 in Australien ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Settled and quiet day off in Mt Isa essentially doing nothing but letting the kids play and run around with a day out of the car.
It’s been nice to sit back and just read while the kids play.
