My family travelled around Eastern Central Australia in July 2008. The first week of the itinerary and more info is here.
Day 8 – Left Alice Springs, went north up the Stuart Hwy and then east on the Plenty Hwy. Stopped at the ‘Giant termite mound’ and camped for the night about halfway about 500mts of road down track.
Day 9 – Left our bush camp and travelled to Boulia (QLD). Purchased fuel at a station several hundred kms before getting to Boulia. I asked the lady that was selling the fuel how many acres is the station. She said they owned 2 properties both 500,000 acres each WOW! Arrived at Boulia mid afternoon and setup camp on powered site to recharge mobile phones etc.
Day 10 – Left Boulia and travelled to Birdsville and camped for 2 nights (QLD)
Day 11 & 12 – Stayed at Birdsville, Visited the Birdsville Hotel, conquered ‘Big Red’ the first sand dune of the Simpson Desert, the Birdsville Working Museum and more. Birdsville would be one of our favourite outback towns.
Day 13 – Left Birdsville and travelled to Innamincka, another very unique outback town.
On the road to Innamincka we had just gone past ‘Cordillo Downs’ a sheep station, we came across and man and his vehicle and trailer that needed help. He was towing a rust bucket of a trailer that shouldn’t have left home and the leaf spring had broken off. We did manage to help him by drilling a hole in the leaf spring and in the trailer and wiring it up with ‘No.8’ fencing wire (we always carry a piece of this wire when 4WDriving it’s the first time we have ever used it. He was then able to go drive slowly to ‘Cordillo Downs’ and get more help.
So never go 4WDriving with vehicles that can’t cope with the corrugations.
Day 14 – Stayed in Innamincka and camped in tents on the bank of Coopers Creek. This is the area where ‘Burke & Wills’ started their trek many years ago.
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