Back from the Simpson Desert

Well my little Pathfinder made it back from the Simpson Desert with only minor damage ( Cracked window (minor) and broken spot light mounts). The trip was great, the was a lot of over the air traffic but not to much in the way of vehicles. We did the combination route which included the French line down, WAA line, QAA and all those in between. The WAA line was just about over grown and slow going and the French line was also slow going average speed was <17kms in most places. The detour at Eyre Creek had been opened up and the crossing was only 200m south of the original crossing water was about 700mm deep and the crossing was rather easy. The by pass track from Big Red ( Pathy made it over) to Birdsville was extremely rough and again very slow going until you meet up with the main road. Once in Birdsville we had a great meal and a few beers and stayed in the park for the night and over night it rained and the Birdsville track was closed and as we could not hang around we headed east to Quilpie and headed south from there.Don't believe the locals we they say yeah that development road is all bitumen as we found 40ks of mud at 3am and we where down to 3rd gear low range to keep us going forward. This was all due to the over night rain. Some areas had upto 66mm over night.