In the tracks of.............................

Off on Friday early a.m. for a 15 day trip visiting :

Chambers Pillar, Hugh River, Lawrence's Pass, Stuart Pass & Brinkley Bluff.

Then Anna's Reservoir & Mt Freeling, the old O.T. Line, Central Mt Stuart, Attack Creek & Kekwick Ponds. Home south through the Davenport Ranges.

Theme is to follow as near as is pracatically possible to John McDouall Stuart's 1860 route from Chambers Pillar to Attack Creek, where he aborted his 1860 trip in his first serious attempt to cross the continent from south to north.

We will also climb Brinkley Bluff, climb Central Mt Stuart, search for two blazed trees (forever optimistic, I know) and a cairn, and try and locate the grave of John Milner at Attack Creek [dead at the hands of natives, 1872, while delivering meat on the hoof to the starving Overland Telegraph Line construction workers].

So, two weeks of the camp oven, the swag, a few coldies and a glass or three of red. Station tracks and red dirt; warm days & cool nights; dirty clothes & dirty hair...............and hopefully the satisfaction of executing a highly researched, one -off trip.

Cheers