Simpson Desert trip

Lucky buggers. You'll definitely enjoy it.

Hi Viv,
All the best and you are in for a great trip. If you haven't been through the Simpson before, this will be your taste of the mighty Simpson and you will be back again and again, it gets in your blood.

Safe travels and enjoy the largest parrell desert system in the world.


Cheers and have a great trip


Stephen

Viv

We are just back from our first Simpson crossing (WAA line East to West) - loved it, no problem areas to report. The Mt Dare to Dalhousie road is very rough with some rocks nearly as big as footballs - Take it slow, we had tyres set at 28psi and had no problems. Tyres 18psi across Simpson.
Heard reports of serious mozzies at Dalhousie at dusk, and sandfly bites at Coward Springs.
Make sure you have a tall sandflag and keep UHF on ch10 for oncoming traffic, we had equal volume of traffic in both directions.
Very little wildlife sighted, no camels or goannas, 1 dingo, 1 bearded dragon and lots of smaller lizards. Quite a lot of wildflowers and the wattle is in full bloom.

An unexpected highlight of our trip was camping at the Eringa waterhole, between Hamilton and Bloods creek.
Have a safe trip!
Dalb

Hi Viv,

I hope you have a great trip, here are a couple of pics to wet the appetite,





Kind regards

Hi Viv

We hope that you have a great trek out into the desert. It is a good time of the year to do it.

If you are passing by on your way there or home, do drop in for a cuppa. Judith is home bound, learning how to walk again after a successful TKR.

Regards

Hi Viv

We hope that you have a great trek out into the desert. It is a good time of the year to do it.

If you are passing by on your way there or home, do drop in for a cuppa. Judith is home bound, learning how to walk again after a successful TKR.

Regards

Hi Viv

We got home last Thursday from our first trip across the SD, we
had a great time and are planning to go back again in 2009 with
some friends who couldn't go with us this year. 2008 we are
going to Cape York (GQ already half packed!) Not much to
see in wildlife, 1 dingo, lots of birds and lizards, weather was
fantastic, we had no problems with tyres or anything else on
the vehicle. On the WAA line we came across a guy who had
rolled his vehicle lucky for him he wasn't hurt, he had too much
weight on his roofrack (140 Litres of Diesel in a home made fuel
tank plus all his gear). The flies were bad but if you eat before
sunup and after sunset you will be ok. Enjoy and travel safe.

Hey Viv

Hope you have a wonderful time!!! SMS me at some stage so I know where you are and be jealous!!

Hope the new camera works well...or the operator goes well!!

Have a good'n'

Laura

Hey Viv

Hope you have a wonderful time!!! SMS me at some stage so I know where you are and be jealous!!

Hope the new camera works well...or the operator goes well!!

Have a good'n'

Laura

Have a great trip Viv, I am sure you will. Do you do do any driving in the sand or does Ray do it all? Anyway, have a lot of fun and relax and enjoy it. Hope it rains well while you are gone!

Have a great trip Viv, I am sure you will. Do you do do any driving in the sand or does Ray do it all? Anyway, have a lot of fun and relax and enjoy it. Hope it rains well while you are gone!

I wonder if I can double post too?

Go Viv

Wish we were going with you, we really miss the desert.

Have a safe trip, and above all, an enjoyable one.

Cheers Mate

Bucky

Hi Vivien,
My self and 5 other vehicles arrived home sat from the same trip ,
you will have a ball ! but watch out for the on coming vehicles who don,t have a sand flag and a UHF . we struck several and there so arrogant .
cheers mechpete.