Google Earth

G'day Wayne,

just pipped me at the post !

At least you drive a troopy too, :-)

Terry

Thanks Wayne and Pterosaur

I am looking for a shiny object. Actually it is an aluminium pole with a flat top to it.

We thought we placed it at 25degrees 22minutes South and 137 degrees 5 minutes East.

Now when we placed this plaque at the approximate Geographical Centre of the Simpson Desert, we were using a sextant to calculate our position. In those days there were no commercial GPS systems available.

It is possible that we made some errors and that the pole is not where it should be.

I am going to look for it again in May this year.

All help appreciated but I won't be disappointed if we cannot see it.

Terry,

The vehicles we drive may be slow but we, the drivers, are quick of the mark.

Wayne

Willem,

not enough detail for your object (IMHO) - plenty of dunes tho'. If your marker was placed more recently than 3 years ago, wouldn't show anyhow.

If you wish, email me at

ttimothyatcurldotaunzdotnet, and I will send you the file, and a screen capture (140kb).

Wayne
:-):-):-):-):-)

Terry

Whoops meant to post the above as a reply.

Terry

Going to take the GQ Spinifex bashing hay.

Terry

The pole was planted there in 1987. Email on way

Exploder

I will try to avoid the spinifex clumps. Towing a bush trailer as well. Going to be fun.

Willem,

When in May are you going to cross the Simpson?

We are also going again in May.

Geoff.

G'day Squizzy

I will be coming over from Alice around mid May. Having a rendesvous out there with me other mates around the 15th

Willem, don't tell me you can't remember where you put the blasted thingie?
Google Earth is not so good here - we were trying to find things also - but very good in populated areas we could see faces in windows in Sydney, no kidding!

Oh I can remember Ruth. We crossed 345 dunes one way and then 43 dunes sideways. Trouble is I cant figure out how many dunes there were from the French Track lol

Thanks Captain

I am trying to gather as much info as possible on finding the place again.

Cheers

I burnt some paper left behind by dumb campers last year out there. If we could pick the rubbish out from GE it would keep a lot of people employed :o)

Willem,

I should have added, east of the Colson Track and north west of Poeppel Corner.

Would that be on the Hay River Track?

Used Google Earth to look at the co- ordinates first , then checked on a map. Ruth I also use paper maps to check the electronic maps.

Wayne

Thanks Wayne

The place is closer to the Colson Track than the Hay River Track.

Good boy, Wayne - if Willem had just put a mark with pencil on his paper map he might be able to find his thingie again!

Ruth

I did mark the place on the paper map....but where the hell is the paper map......LOL. Nineteen years have passed since then.

Thanks Pete, I might try that when it cools down here...lol My speed is 50.6.

Hahahahaha Grant. Exactly where did you find this???

Ok Bro...thanks

Thanks Willie. I tried to download it once but wasn't successful. Too tricky for we young fellas. LOL

Hi Sparra

I recollect driving about 6km north of a seismic track to find the place which we thought was the right one. Most of these track came from the east and ran dead at the base of dunes.

We returned to that seismic track headed east and then took another one going south. Along this one I found where the grader driver had serviced his machine as there were grease gun cartridges and old filters lying on the ground. I do remember something I found there date stamped 1966. However it looked as if it was fresh after all those years. The desert preserves things very well.

We had to leave the seismic tracks again to get to our objective, the French Track as fuel was a big concern. I got in to Birdsville with only 5 litres of unleaded left in the tank :o) The other Suzuki had 7 litres left.

It was a hard drive in the Suzuki's and we seldom got out of low range and averaged 26lt/100km