Month: August 2019
Exploring the Towns and Ghost Towns of the Mid-North – Part 2
August 15, 2019It got quite cold overnight… There isn’t normally enough moisture to get frost like this in South Australia, but as I said, we’d had a lot of rain. I was actually fine in the swag. With a combination of my old Army synthetic sleeping bag and my MacPac down sleeping bag. The only problem […]
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Exploring the Towns and Ghost Towns of the Mid-North – Part 1
August 14, 2019The region known as the Mid-North of South Australia is one I always find myself driving through, on my way to some off-roady destination. However I’ve always fancied just having a little tour around this area, which is not a traditional tourist area, but is full of history. So I left the Land Cruiser at […]
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Dry July – A Land Cruiser and a Range Rover go winter desert touring. Part 3
August 5, 2019We bade goodbye to our little spot on the Cooper Creek. A quick breakfast and topped off the fuel at the Trading Post. Said goodbye to the characterful owners and hit the road. Today we would take Walkers Crossing, taking us through the Birdsville Track where we would turn the trucks south and start heading […]
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Dry July – A Land Cruiser and a Range Rover go winter desert touring. Part 2
August 1, 2019Pink sunrise greeted us the next day. We fuelled up and headed out. Back down the access road from Arkaroola we hung left, north east, this dirt road would take us up to the Strzelecki Track, and on to Innamincka, our destination today. This track was relatively busy this morning. We passed a group […]
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