Hi everyone, big day today so i apologise now for writing so much. Today was a day of mixed speeds. We had a very slow morning. No hurry to get up. Plenty of time to shower, go for a walk to the local servo for coffees and no hurry to come back. Laying in the sun was the order of the morning. I kept blocking the sun from Tracey and she was not happy. Such a great morning. Half the park checked out and they were predominatly large vans and their work horses ( Xavier was happy because he is seeing lots of Rangers). Not seeing many Hi Lux's pulling vans. We had a very light lunch. Tracey is still complaining that she has not been able to find any cream buns. Boy she is annoying ... read more

Day 4 The Red Centre - Travel from Marree to Oodnadatta Hi all, today we drove from Marree to the town of Oodnadatta. Again it was not a rushed morning. We left Marree at about 9am after buying some freshly baked rolls from the Marree roadhouse. The Hema 4x4 GPS told us we had just over 400 km to go and it was going to take us about 8 hours. We took off to the west with the road being in reasonable condition and the surrounding landscape was continuing to be desert boring. The one thing that we noticed is that there was a proliferation of bores and springs. It is interesting to understand what this meant. Even though the landscape looked normal and dry there were an untold number of bores and natural springs. We ... read more

Hi everyone, today we played tourists. We started off on a Mine tour at the Daydream mine which is located just outside of Silverton township. OMG. This mine was old school. Lets just say safety and OH&S were a little behind the times but we enjoyed our two hours there. We found ourselves walking down 100 feet below the ground and in spots we needed to crouch to get into the shafts. The shafts are being kept together by timber posts and there were no lights underground. We were relying on the quivering lights of our unstable safety hats. I got a little claustraphobic in one spot but very little you can do when you are 100feet below ground and you don't know the way up. My son Paul was saved a number of times as ... read more

Hi everyone, we here we go again. Tonina and I are going on another 4X4 driving trip to the Red Centre of Australia. We will be taking our trusty Troop Carrier (Troopy), which by the way sleeps two comfortably in its expandable roof. We will be travelling with our son Paul, his wife Lisa and our three grandchildren. Also on this trip will be my sister and Tonina's brother and for those who don't know they are married to each other (in other words brother and sister married brother and sister). Anyhow with these three four wheel drives leaving on this trip we will be away from home for 16 days and in that time we will be travelling over 5,500 kilometers round trip. We will be travelling to the centre of Australia through mining country ... read more

Day 4 Today we are heading to a town called Blinman. We head off from William Creek to Maree and then through the Flinders ranges and end up in the small town of Blinman. After the 100 km we had a chance to view lake eyre south . Lots of salt at its edges. An experience to see water in this lake at this time of year. The total kms to drive today is 531km on dirt roads. It looks like we will get to our destination in the dark. The town of Marree is so small it had a roadside petrol and diesel pump as well as one roadside shop which looked more like a tin shed. We ended up getting a flat tyre with 150 to go. The tyre was punctured by the sharp ... read more