The Great Victoria Desert

Nice looking area, will have to get out that way myself some day!

Cheers

Krakka

Pleased to see you had a good trip Stephen, look forward to reading your trip report.

Dave

Stephen,

I am sure if you narrated all the trip notes, Mick O would love to type them out for you LOL


Good to see that you had a good trip, looking forward to those Blogs about them.

Cheers Kev

Hi Stephen,

It sure is wonderful country out there isn't it, I look forward to seeing the trek notes.

Thanks for sharing the photos.

Phil

Welcome back Stephen. Coming back to a Monday morning reality check is always the hardest thing? Your photos offer a tantalising glimps into your travels and I will look forward to reading all about it in the coming weeks. Trust you had a great time.

Cheers Mick.

Welcome back Stephen.

There's some nice pictures there; each with its own story I'm sure.

I look forward to your report.

Cheers
Alan

Hi Stephen,

Nice to see you back safe n sound. It only seems like yesterday you said that you had two days before leaving..

By all accounts you had a great trip. Must catch up for an in depth report.

-and yes, the desert is a truly magnificent place.


Cheers
Michael

Gday Stephen,

We're back today too after 3 weeks away - the first two in Yellabinna on the eastern side of the GVD. Had 11 days on Googs track and around the area with FOGVD - flowers were out and the reptiles and birds were active - learnt a lot.

Can we guess where you're photos are taken??
I'm guess thing the third and 4th are in Plumridge Lakes - the third one is the sandalwood pile at one of the cutters camps and the fourth photo is the only sign in the whole of the park. The last one is marble gums on the Anne Beadell Hwy.
The cave photo is just south of empress springs???

Look forward to your reports, and thank you for taking the time to share this with us! Cheers
Phil

Hi Stephen.
Good to hear you had a great trip and am certainly looking forward to reading your trek notes.
I sure am looking forward to my trip into that magnificent country again next year.
I was hoping to travel out to Sydney Yeo Range when I do my trip down the Connie Sue Hwy next year, so am interested to hear the conditions of this track and what the range and chasam are like. I have just read Frank Hann's diary of his discovering this range and it sure sounds like an interesting place. Do you know if the trees they blazed still exist?
Regards,
Tony

I am sitting at work and these last pics are really turning me a shade of greeeeen! lol. One day.

Krakka

Hi Stephen, did you manage to find Lily Rockhole in the end? The top photo with the plates attached to the tree is that Hann's camp in Laverton?

You've just got to love the colours in the GVD.

Look forward to reading your blogged report if and when you get around to it.

Hi Stephen.
We were out at Sydney Yeo Chasm July last year. Didn't look like anyone else had been through for quite a while prior to our visit. Weather was very cold and windy. Water oly in the pool at the first drop. Our permits took about 3 weeks, would need to look up where they came from.
What a fantastic area!
Cheers, Tony.

No, definitely not. The only sign of anything was an old boiler(?) near the track junction at which you head SE into the Sydney Yeo Range. Where was it?
A few pics of our trip here TLCV GVD trip
Cheers, Tony.

The Anne Beadell was absolutely fantastic. I had first read about it 25 years ago & finally did it. Headed East to West.
We had a Club member Takeshi Namba with us who took some photos as part of the 50 years anniversary of the Landcruiser. The cover page of the DVD is us at Tallaringa well.
On entering the Tallaringa Conservation Park the Hwy became very corrugated so just took it slow with numerous stops. Slow going to near Vokes Hill corner where there had been some recent grading. Excellent driving through Mamungar, great scenery & some dune crossings. Saw our fiirst camels here. Sunrise over the Serpentine Lakes was surely something. On crossing into WA, the road conditions were markedly better although some Sandy Sections after Ikurkla Road House. More camels at Bishop Riley's Pulpit & went looking for sandalwood out of Old Yeo Homestead.
From laverton went up to Warburton via Empress Springs then down the Connie Sue via Sydey Yeo Chasm to Rawlinna & Cocklebiddy & home.
Corrugations on the Connie Sue were as heavy if not worse than those on the Anne Beadell. One of the highlights of Being at Sydney Yeo Chasm was being so isolated. makes you respect Frank Hann. His diaries "Do Not Yield To Despair" are heavy going but give an inkling into what made him. His travels make mine look extremely insignificant.
Met a few other travelers heading East on the Anne Beadell who said the road was bad in the West. little did they know! Only one other group on the Connie Sue who passed us near Pt. Sandercock.
All up - 3 weeks Coober Pedy to Rawlinna. Eight vehicles. One puncture just out of Neale Junction on the CSH. My AGM battery died, its weight punched the ARB battery cradle through the point mount of the wheel arch. Now fixed with extra steel to spread the load & just a conventional wet deep cycle battery. I think two broken side mirrors.
Cheers again, Tony.

This is getting to be a long thread Stephen.
The Cooper hills bore was only a pipe in the ground. I hope fellow travelers respect the new solar panels & pump.
As for the art at Point Lilian, I wasn't aware of its existence. Looks like a return visit is in order. We didn't go into Point Lilian as the another large group were already there (probably camped over night).
Thanks for the picturs your information Stephen. look out for us on the tracks.
Cheers, Tony.