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June – August 2024
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  • BushRoosTravelerBroome via The Outback

    Getting Close Now

    June 13, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

    We still don't leave for a couple of weeks but we're packed and ready to roll! We're also keenly monitoring the status of wet roads around Tibooburra which will determine how we get to Birdsville early in the trip. A couple of maps on this footprint to show a summary of our planned routes to Broome and back...Read more

  • BushRoosTravelerBroome via The Outback

    Savannah Way - The Gulf

    June 14, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    Well, we haven't even left yet and the return route from Broome has already changed! Instead of heading south from Darwin to Three-Ways and Mt Isa, I'm thinking it's a great opportunity to travel from Mataranka to Cairns on the Savannah Way through the Gulf Country which I have never been to before. It's the right time of year, all new country and gives us a bit more Qld coast to explore on the way south. I was looking forward to the Barkly Tablelands and Mt Isa (last there in 1991 as a student engineer with Bevo - another story) but staying north as long as possible is also very attractive. But wait, divert to Cooktown while we're up there as well ??? Jardine River National Park ...Read more

  • BushRoosTravelerBroome via The Outback
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    The Red Rover is Packed

    June 16, 2024 in Australia

    Red Rover packed and ready for a quick getaway!

  • BushRoosTravelerBroome via The Outback
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    Things Getting Messy !

    June 25, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 9 °C

    Things are getting messy around here. Packing reaches its climax. Farm managers getting the low down via a few rums (yikes)! Tensions are on the cusp!!!! Not quite as bad as Burke n Wills and we definitely have not packed a bath tub or a dining table!!!Read more

  • BushRoosTravelerBroome via The Outback
    Andrew's first home in Nyngan
    This place will be amazing.The Drovers Sheep11Skippy1This guy or girl is the largest healthiest echidna ever !1Sturts boat. He took a boat! A whaling boat! So sure of an inland sea.2SunriseThe start of the road trains

    Tibooburra

    June 27, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 14 °C

    Day 1 THURSDAY June 27th 2024
    THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
    Bugger the ice and frost we are off to meet the troups and make the magnificent seven!. Goodbye frosted washing, goodbye minus 3 and hello warmer climes. Setting off at sparrows dawn and heading west. Past the cotton farms and first of the emus on the Narromine plains,the salt bush and the myall trees. We've even brought Andrew's dad along for the ride (he's in the glove box). Bill loved this country. Nyngan was his home. (Andrew sheds a tear).Through Nyngan on the Bogan, we stop and pay tribute to the sheep sculpture, which honours the first drovers  and was commissioned by Andrew's mum and dad. Onward through red dirt plains, where wedge tail eagles soar and red kangaroos race.

    I have taken to navigating as months of mapping and downloaded apps, and "I know where I'm going." This means we almost ended our travels on a dusty clay pan with nothing but salt bush around! Saved by my trail mix too. Just the right blend. 😄

    If you were a goat herder, this would be your heaven. Goats everywhere. I've even got a Billy goat driving.

    On the road from Wanarring to Tibooburra ,We've never seen such fat, shiny, healthy cattle, sheep ,roos, pigs, and goats. The country has soaked up recent rains and is green as far as the eyes can see and an emu can streak! Green and yellow irridescent Budgies in flocks of murmurs against cloudless blue skies. As the sun sets in the western sky, we make into Tibooburra with a touch of 'first night fever'..    Read more

  • BushRoosTravelerBroome via The Outback
    Billy goats bluff1A coffee van in a Claypan2And we are their first customers.Cameron CornerPaddy melons growing everywhere1Wild flowersMore wild flowers1And carpets of wild flowersBone Man made from animal bones and People's refuse.Carpets of wildflowersSpectacular growth1The magnificent 92Setting up camp11Roads getting rougher.1

    The Strzelecki Desert

    June 28, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    Day 2
    The Strzelecki
    A gorgeous sunrise walk saw us leaving Tibooburra for the Strzelecki Desert. Imagine our surprise when an hour or so down the track we come across a coffee van set up on a clay pan. Middle of nowhere. It’s called Pink Lady Lake because no pink lady should expose herself to such harshness. We were the first customers of this fine young entrepreneurial family from local Waka station. Such an inspiration. Onward after coffee past fighting big red Roos and lush desert wild flowers. We are just in awe of this amazing country after rain. From green to yellow to purple and white. Carpets of bloom everywhere. Realising roads are not as bad as we thought , we went back to the original plan of the Walking Crossing. Camped on the Cooper River with the budgies and the birds. No water currently flowing but everything is lush.Read more

  • BushRoosTravelerBroome via The Outback
    1This is desert swathed in green, The Cooper River
    Dingoes about!2Dingo! So special to see three!!Hugging the Cooper2Gorgeous wild flowers everywhereThese grains of sand make gorgeous patterns5Two old cootsWattle in full bloomCooper lake systemThe Cooper1Wonder what happened to these guys!1Feisty healthy cattle1Gibber PlainMade it.5Check this out for your next festival! With rains coming once in you cannot come out. YikesView from above1Lush lush lush desert country. Not sure if we will ever see it like this again.1The amazing Diamantina River3Flight crew1Desert Troopers

    The Walkers Crossing track.

    June 29, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 22 °C

    This is desert country like we have never seen it. Lush and green with great puddles of rain drenched earth. Hugging the Cooper River ( which is not in flow) we made our way across the Strzelecki, The Great Stoney Desert and eventually into Birdsville. Today’s trek was short but rough going so took the best part of a whole day to travel roughly 220 kms. We came across three magnificent looking dingoes and some very fat shiny cattle. Flocks of birds absolutely everywhere. From cranes to pelicans to budgies to hawks. It was truly a desert landscape come to life. Reading Burke and Wills story it’s easy to see how mistaken they were as they traversed north in a good season and sadly upon their return everything had changed. Thanks to Nicola Stuart for her inspiration to explore the Simpson via plane , a few of our group took a scenic flight. It was spectacular to see the Channel country come to life, the Diamantina in full flow and in our photos check out preparations for the Big Red Bash! We won’t be attending but it’s extraordinarily busy in this tiny desert town.Read more

  • BushRoosTravelerBroome via The Outback
    Dark stormy skies over Birdsville and at least 12.4 mm of rain.2This could shortly be us but slightly more modern vehicle.Nothing to do but have a drink here while the skies clear.The rain keeps on coming.A trial desert run!Getting ready for Little RedThe iconic Birdsville pubWhat once was the Royal Hotel BirdsvilleSome structure to the old RoyalSun rises at BirdsvilleBore water.A tribute to the camels of the outback

    The Big Wet Bash

    June 30, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Andrew’s plans turn to mud! Rain rain rain. All roads to and from Birdsville are closed. We are stuck! Coffee chatter centres around all things to do Birdsville. Nine out of ten not possible due to the wet. Now waiting for pub to open. With no accommodation and a very wet campground things about to get interesting. Stay tuned.
    Update: Slim possibility the road into the desert will be open but wet, muddy and boggy. This WILL be interesting. No comms til we get to the other side.
    UPDATE: Rain again and lots of it! Waiting for the pub to open. No accomodation options yet!
    Andrew says we’ve already done 9 out of 10 things to do in Birdsville. Hehe. Been to the pub, the cafe, the info centre, the river, the bakery, the flight Nothing left to do but drink away the day and contemplate a wet evening under a cloudy ominous sky.    Read more

  • BushRoosTravelerBroome via The Outback
    Road to the Simpson desert
    5Up the first dune.About to fly high!The DiamantinaBirdsville from the airCreeks and rivers everywhereWet from the airIt's wet and green everywhereFlight crew

    Update Big Mud Bash.

    June 30, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    The rain is unrelenting. Just keeps coming. Birdsville was a hot 32 degrees upon arrival yesterday and it’s 13 degrees now. We’ve been for a reconnaissance to the start of the desert. Check out my videos. Nobody expected anything like this amount of rain. We thought we might get a little, but this is a significant event and we’ve reports of desert travellers bogged all through the Simpson. So some of us have snagged a room at the pub. Some of us are free camped in the rain. Andrew and I waiting ( not sure for what)! The pub is currently our home. Music. Fires. Music. People. What more do we need? Our plan tomorrow, is to head North and find bitumen roads and then to Alice and then desert again to Broome, barring any further extraordinary weather events. Stay tuned. Hahaha
    Big Red Bashers are all packed in and nobody allowed in or OUT!    Read more

  • BushRoosTravelerBroome via The Outback
    The new route north west.
    Carcory Station. Built 1877This old station survives in stone. A reminder of the early settlements.The troops in their troop vehiclesLove these old ruins.Dingo alert

    Channel Country

    July 1, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 9 °C

    As first light hits the waters now surrounding Birdsville, all is a glisten and the glorious Diamantina river in full flow. We are still the magnificent 9 travelling convoy but our journey has changed. Sometimes all the best made plans, even A, B and C must be tossed in favour for the only other option left… north and around the Simpson desert. This will be the only road open to us. Going through Boulia and Bedourie where warm springs bubble up from the ancient artesian basin, we won’t stop but will continue on to make up a missed day in the desert and Alice.Read more

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