Recent content by RobMac

Did u manage to find the Cave when u went?

Day.27 Distance: 855kms (Driving Time:10h40m) Now, being by myself I was on the road at sunrise and headed off to check out the local historical Homestead and also now the NP headquarters. I had a good look around and then wanted to talk to one of the park rangers about the roads to the north...

Day.24 Distance: 131kms (Driving Time: 5h25m) With our cross country experience now ending, this is where the 79’s crew member headed south along the Hay River Track and into Birdsville that way and the 2 remaining Landrovers heading north along the Hay River Track to MC16 where we would turn...

Day.20 Distance: 53kms (Driving Time:4h59m) Another cold morning as we all slowly rose and packed up. The shotline that we were following quite often would just disappear and then reappear over the next few sandunes. All vehicles continued slowly and with all vehicle tyres deflated down into the...

Day.16 Distance: 465kms (Driving Time:5h22m) Today was the day we meet up with the rest of the crew at Kulgera, so we headed off north, stopping in to see the Breakaways. Continued north, stopping in at Marla and Kulgera meeting up with the last 2 crew members (79’s Cruiser & LR 110 County)...

Day.12 Distance: 95kms (Driving Time:4h06m) Woke up to the coldest morning to date -2degrees. Headed west along a track that looked as though it hadn’t seen any traffic for a fair period of time. Reached what looked like a burnout Mercedes AWD Wgn, not how long its been there for but I would...

Day.8 Distance: 169kms (Driving Time:3h11m) Left a bit later than normal as we needed to book online our following nights camp in the Gawler Ranges. Once packed up we headed north to Lake Gardiner, then backtracked a bit and made our way into the Gawler Rges NP where we camped for the night at...

Total Trip Distance: 8489kms Time Frame: 29days Total Fuel Used: 1067ltrs Economy for Trip: 12.6ltrs/100kms Vehicle: 2010 LR Defender 110 Wgn Other Vehicles: (105’s Cruiser Wgn; 100’s Cruiser Wgn; 79’s Cruiser Ute; Landrover 110 County Wgn) Map of Trip: The Trip can be split into 2 Parts - 1st...

As mentioned, the big old American rigs are few and far between... with Toyota, Nissan being the main ones with others like Landrover; Mitsubishi also an option.. Maybe look on some of the selling sites here in Australia to get an idea of prices, etc but something smaller than your big Fords...

I do have 5wks off but about 4wks +/- a few days if req'd... will just depend on how things pan out...

Well... this year hopefully, we will get to do a Trackless Desert Crossing Trip but also take in the Gawler Rges; Googs Track before tackling the desert to find the Geo-Ctr of the desert.... providing the borders remain open... From my calls distance will be around the 9400kms mark...

If CV19 dosen't interfere, we'll off to do the Gawler Ranges; then to the Googs Track where we will visit some less known sites then head up to the Simpson to access the Geo-Ctr of the Desert and then to Beachcomber Oil Well all offtrack, then exit via Warburton's Xing and then to Innamincka via...

Cheers for that... Yes it was and it also proved a good proving ground to iron out a few issues with the vehicle before our upcoming Off-Track Desert Trip later on in the year

The next day was a early rise and headed to the next town of Barraba and the local falls - Horton Falls. From the falls it was off to next destination whick was another old Mine site and our camp for the night on the eastern side of Copeton Dam. This turned out a little more involve as we...

Woke up to a rainy/windy morning with the weather doing a complete change from hot to freezing cold. With the weather being what it was, it was no point doing any of the walks as u could not see anything due to the cloud cover. Once back down off the Mountain, it was off twds the Hot Baths...