Hobbies/Interest

Canada & the Yukon - Across the frozen Arctic on the Dempster Highway

Driving through blizzard conditions across a permafrost tundra is a little foreign to most Aussies. It's something that doesn't come naturally....

Queensland and warmer days in Hebel, St George, Lake Murphy and Wuruma Dam

In cloudy skies, we packed up our camp in the Warrumbungles and headed for the Queensland Border via the Castlereagh Highway, passing through Coonamble,...

Wooback at Yass

Wooback was a gathering today of draught horses to set a world record for the number of horses ploughing at the same time. As there was no previous record,...

Snowmobiling in the wilds of West Yellowstone - A different family vacation

MINUS 36 CELSIUS…WHAT THE! A variation of 74C in just 24 hours certainly (39C to -36C) makes for a different family vacation. How you can go from heat exhaustion to the risk of frostbite is an ...

Photo Comp 2014

D-Max fuel filters, Enginesafe EMS 550 and Sensatyre pressure monitors.

Where to fit all this stuff? Both of the readout monitors needed wiring, one an antenna and a suitable location for them both to be permanently installed. The dashboard it

SAX on SAX OFF ( Suspension replacement ) 2013 D-Max

Partly how it ended. How it all began............................................................... After picking up a couple of Bobcat scoops of sand for a pathway,...

D-Max getting wired and Barred Up!

The Opposite Lock Bull Bar and side protection bars arrived in Hobart, and with the D-Max just 300 kilometres old the time was ripe for cutting up a perfectly good front bumper to fit the thing....

The Kangas' new ride

The trusted HDJ78 we have had now for a number of years, and has taken us to many iconic and memorable places around the big brown land doesn't work quite so well with the new lifestyle in ...

Remembering our Explorers - Edward Kidson (1882 - 1939) Geophysicist and scientific explorer

“Yeah mate, we’re just heading up to the Alice and then out the Gary Junction to the Canning. I reckon we’ll take the Kidson from there up to Broome”!...

The Legacy of Mining and Oil Exploration Tracks in Australia

Many of Australia’s major Outback Tracks have been put in place either through the quest of linking many remote locations,...

Innes National Park

From rugged coastlines that have claimed many sailing vessels over the years, to the ruins at Inneston that was once an important Gypsum Mining venture,...

Maralinga Mystery Tour 2013

During August 2013, we ventured out into the very heart of the Great Victoria Desert with the help of my great friend, Robin Matthews from Maralinga....

Carnegie Expedition 2013 - Day 17 Carnegie Bluff and a sea of dunes to Dwarf Well

Tonight finds us camped on the edge of a claypan some 40 kilometres south of Bilbarrd out station and 7 kilometres west of the newly ‘re-discovered’ Dwarf Well. [gi]9639

In the footsteps of Carnegie - Day 16 Through the Stansmore Range to Warri Peak & Carnegie Bluff

Carnegie Expedition 2013 - Day 15 Dealing with the attrition of outback travel (The "Chores")

Another camp day today with a warning to the reader. A rest day or “chore day” can be as exciting as watching paint dry. For those undertaking the tasks, it usually means barked

Carnegie Expedition 2013 - Day 14 Exploring Wilson Glen and the Stansmore Ranges.

"The hills we found to be of the usual character, barren sandstone, from which numerous rocky creeks have torn their way through the sand. Following up a little glen, terribly

Carnegie Expedition 2013 - Day 12 Exploring the Erica Range in search of Dora Creek Pool

“In five miles we cut a small watercourse, and following it up to its head found ourselves on the top of a range of barren sandstone hills,...

Carnegie Expedition 2013 - Day 13 Rendezvous at Wilson Glen (in the Stansmore Range)

5th August, 2013, Wilson Glen I had expected a lot of wind overnight, howling off the salt pans however, the wind dropped off at dusk and stayed that way....

Simpson Day 21 - We're home, it's all over

2013-08-03 Day 21, Horsham to Home We chose the Comfort Inn Capital Horsham because they had been very helpful to Peter and Jean on a previous occasion when most places were booked out....

In the footsteps of Carnegie-Day 11 Desert Discoveries (Arid ranges, lost cities & mongrel country!)

The quad team got away from Thomas Bluff camp about 9:00 a.m. after numerous repairs to the quads, principally leaky tyres. We had to swap out one of Al’s tyres giving h

Simpson Day 20

2013-08-02 Day 20, Burra to Horsham 8:30 a.m. saw four Foresters depart the Burra show grounds, two heading east, and two heading south (including Jan and I)....

Carnegie Expedition 2013 - Day 10 Rendezvous near Thomas Peak.

Friday 2nd August Unnamed range and bluff Approximately 8 km north-east of Thomas Peak WA It was a magnificent warm night beneath the stars in our little bloodwood camp,...

Simpson Day 19

2013-08-01 Day 19, Flinders Ranges to Burra This morning we followed the Geological Trail across the Flinders Ranges, then down to Wilpena Pound....

Simpson Day 18

2013-07-31 Day 18, Muloorina to Flinders Ranges via Lake Eyre North Corrugations, and more corrugations, on the road to Lake Eyre North....