Madigans Line

Hi Stephen,

I Think it was your tracks I followed earlier this year below the Twins. Dave and I at Mt Dare spoke with Robbie and Jo Bloomfield on Monday night when they were over for tea. For some time I have been investigating/creating a bypass around the Madigan camps in indigenous land areas. People undertaking the Madigan do not have permission of CLC to go to camps 3,4 and 5, and as you say most also do not have permission of Andado Station.

We have come to an agreement for next season that people wanting to use access the Madigan contact Mt Dare and a register of names and vehicle registrations will be maintained and a map of coordinates supplied for the indigenous land bypass. (info@mtdare.com.au)

The dune system beween south of the Twins to the Colson is magic, difficult and is a fantastic alternative.

More updates to follow

Cheers from
Ian@Mt Dare

Hi Ian,
Depending on what time of the year you were out there, they may have been our tracks. We were through there in early May. I had made many phone calls to Jo before the trip and she is a magic lady. We were able to catch up with Robbie and Jo on the Old Andado Track.

Like Jo said, they did not mind people travelling their land, proving that they had permission and did the right thing. This year we did the Simpson Geo Expedition, doing Madigan;s Camps 1 and 2, then heading South to bypass the indigenous land. As you know, very rocky in sections and it was hard on tyres in sections, those lovely little Mulga stakes just love the side walls of tyres.

It will be great to get that register in place. How far did you follow our tracks for. When we were back in crown land, we then headed south east to a remote confluence of S25º E136º, then making our way out to the Colson track and then on to Geosurveys Hill.

Keep up your great work and sites like this can spread the word about making sure that people register first, do do the right thing and to show the world that yes, 4 wheel drivers are resposanle people and do want to do the right thing by land holders etc.

Stephen

Hi Stephen,

We followed you to the swale whre you headed south and then until you were travelling across the top of a dune through the spinnifex moguls about 6-8 k south.
We then returned to the swale and headed north before cutting through to the Colson. We saw tracks earlier from Phil's group and found them again where they emerged on the Colson track.

Magic country.

When speaking with Robbie and Jo, they are cattle people and are not geared to tourists whereas we are at Mt Dare. At the moment the are cutting a new fence track and aren't at the homestead.

Cheers
Ian@Mt Dare

Ian,

People like myself really appreciate your efforts in sorting out a track across from the twins to camp 6.

Thanks again
Phil

Hi Ian,
As far as I know, we should have been on track for the detour, what do you think? If my track was OK and you have OziExplorer, I could send you a copy of our trek log. Like I said before, the only reason that we headed South, was to get those Magic figures on the GPS. You may even want to use our track as the main route. There were a couple of great camping spots along the way. We will not be back up that part of the Simpson at this stage until the 2008 Season.

Keep up your great work and give our regards to Dave.

Stephen

Hi Robin,

That is the intersection targetted for the bypass between the Twins and camp 6.

The eastern section permissions are controlled by Don Rowlands of Qld Parks in Birdsville (for Park section) and David Brook for the pastoral area north of the track from Birdsville to Big Red on Adria Downs Station.

Cheers
Ian @ Mt dare