May 12, Tuesday: After a night of rain I was glad that the car wasn’t on the dirt anymore. The trip past The Flinders Ranges was wet, overcast and noisy, due to the fact that I didn’t have an exhaust system, the back muffler was still sitting on the roof rack. The long pipe the mechanic has fitted at Tippabara was lying in the back of the car. At Port Augusta I pitched my tent in a caravan park and arrange to have the exhaust replaced the next day. Saw my video on a colour TV in a luxury 30-foot mobile [View Full Entry]

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9 May, Saturday: This morning filmed around the settlement and went out to Burkes Monument, which is about 8 kilometres out of town on the banks of the Cooper Creek. I couldn’t help feel sad at the sight of this marker (his actual grave is in Melbourne). Burke’s exploits across this continent from south to north and back to this part of the country where he died was an epic journey, which helped open up the country for future development of the cattle industry. Because of the reported bad roads out to the Dig Tree I couldn’t reach his last depot. [View Full Entry]

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8 May, Friday: This morning I left town early. Stopped at Fort Grey (campsite) where I met a couple of blokes driving an old Holden Ute. I was amazed it had travelled this far into the bush. Drove onto Cameron’s Corner, which is where the borders of South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland meet. It was quiet an achievement just to reach this area because the vast range of speeds I experienced can only describe the condition of track, which was between 20-70 kph. The corrugations shook hell out of the car and I lost the exhaust at least four [View Full Entry]

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4 May, Monday: After a late night packing the gear I left this morning about 7:45. On the trip up through central Victoria I used the full tank and two of the three spare cans of fuel. This will give me a range around 780 kilometres, which is well within my longest distance between service stations. It was a long days driving to the border town of Wentworth, which was reached around 5:00 that evening. Did 356 kilometres today was advised by the police at Wentworth not to take the Menindee Road due to recent rains. I booked into a caravan [View Full Entry]

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