No credibility for TV presenters in Simpson Desert

Willem, probably the result of "new chums desert fever". Or playing that good old Ozzie game called "spin the yarn". Maybe it was a case of never spoil a good story with the truth. Or just plain ol ignorance.
Send him to Nambia !

Don't know stats on heights of sand dunes but I did hear a sweet sounding cruiser ute pull that big sand anchor (troopie with sat dish) over the top of Big Red.
Looks like they give it some to get the troopie moving again.
I didn't see the story yesterday.

Trevor.

Get over it!
The desert report was secondary to the main story, which was to raise the public awareness to non-smoking related lung cancer.

Well at least the media found a story where 4WDs weren't the bad guy!

G'day young Fella,
My guess is that he has been talking to Ruth and she has spun a little bit of a yarn.
Being a city slicker, the bloke would have been very gullible

Cluck cluck.

Gee, cannot wait for more negative commentary about a positive story on 4WDriving.

Allways makes me laugh when I see something of that nature , biggest this, best that , world population somewhere over 3billion ,Australian population less than 25million yet we maintain that we have the best/biggest of everything ,EGO included !! LOL.

Caught them again reporting this morning.

Evidently they headed off into the Simpson with the satellite dish on a trailer pulled by a Troopie. Following the balloon east to west.

Now all credit to the Troopie, but the driver had never driven on sand before, or used 4wd. At a complete loss when they came to the dunes. Talk of bad preperation, and ignoring SA parks and the no trailer rule.

The disaster was adverted by a couple of blokes in a 4wd who had just crossed and they went back with them to get them through.

Could have been a good oppurtunity to advertise proper training and experience.

Great claim at the end of the report that 'they' had made it across 1100 dunes.

I think everyone's just jealous that they didn't just get back from a Simpson crossing!

Now sandflags - I don't think the vehicles had those either... :-)

Since when do we let fact get in the way of a good story? The current affairs programs do it all the time.
Atleast these guys are getting out and showing the rest of us what is out past the city boundaries.
The way fuel prices are increasing, the small towns that are a vital part of any big trip beyond the black top are going to suffer and may no longer be viable and will shut up shop.
Good on GD and sunrise for doing a big trip, it would be a lot cheaper to stay in Martin Place, atleast they are out and about.
Tim

Boy oh boy what a bunch of whining old negitive people this place has now.

I'm a bit over this place lately.

If your not whining about someone elses choice of 4B, fridge, compressor, tyres, your having a go at someone correcting an obvious misstruth, it's always something "negitive"

Sorry Willem i know you don't like people defending you, just pointing out peoples negitivity on here lately.

Lighten guys it's only a discussion forum.

OK i've vented now, lol.

Baz.