2 August 2016 After saying goodbye to our friend in Katherine, we headed for fuel and food. We met Terry and Jo with this 8 tonne beast, IBUS. Built on a NPS300 with software changes to run it as a NPS400 it was an amazing build. Great colour, deep purple black....
Exploring Katherine 29 July 2016 When we arrived at our camping spot last night we ran into a travelling companion named Chris (and his Isuzu). Turns out he also knew of the little camping spot we found back in 2006. Steve and Chris had a great evening chatting over...
Devils Marbles (Karlu Karlu) 24 July 2016 Soft colourful sunrise greeted us this morning across the paddock. It is still striking on how much green is out this way, even in paddocks that have quite a few cattle in them. Just love the single gum trees that dot the...
19 July 2016 Time has flown, surprisingly we spent 3.5 weeks resting and enjoying Yulara and its biggest attraction.... Uluru. We met some great people including the owner of OKA369 and a Unimog. Some days were spent on the dune tops sheltered from rain and wind...
1 - 10 July 2016 You don't get many opportunities to just sit and enjoy a view, As we are now at one of the world best known natural attractions, Uluru (Ayers Rock) we decided to sit back and enjoy the views a while. This will also give us time for a couple of spare...
29 June 2016 Another cold night last night, awoke to ice on the windscreen. Today we decided to go have a lazy day at the base of Ayers Rock. It turned out to be a very social day. Firstly we met Ryochi, a cyclist we passed on the Great Central Road who we stopped to...
25 June 2016 Rain started about 3am this morning. Weather bureau predicting 20mm. I checked road for closure on Internet and found it had not been closed. Light steady rain accompanied us as we travelled onwards to Yulara. Don and Janine started behind everyone today....
Heading North on the Connie Sue Highway The Connie Sue Highway runs north-south 650kms over red sand dunes and weaves around and through stands of mulga and marble gums, crossing plateaus and breakaways, and through low lake lands. 22 June 2016 Later start this...
Ann Beadell Highway - Progress Slows! 20 June 2016 Freezing cold night last night spent camped on the edge of the Ann Beadell Highway. There was still ice on the max traks when we left camp. The road or track I should say deteriorated further today. But the scenery...
British Atomic Bomb Testing - Totem 1 and 2 The British tested atomic bombs with the assistance of the Australian government in the 1950’s. These include Totem 1 and Totem 2 sites at Emu field in South Australia. Additional tests were performed in Maralinga and a...
15 June 2016 The morning treated us with fog and mist. The waterhole was stunning. About 10:00am we headed off towards Oodnadatta. After a quick stop for lunch it was onto another bypass road around the edge of Stevenson creek flood plain. Great to see water here....
13 June 2016 Working our way back to the Finke we could not find the shortcut from Maryvale. Eventually we were back on track stopping at a another rail siding. The road to Finke became more corrugated with the added danger of dog spikes laying in the sandy track....