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Coffin Bay national park

Mungo National Park

Going to Gawler Ranges (Mt Ive station)

Hay to Murray sunset national park

Fussell Family Simpson Adventure - French line,...

Leaving Coffin Bay National Park

A rough summary of Burke & Wills

Our Trip to the Eyre Region September 2013

Fussell Family Simpson Adventure - Innamincka ...

A day exploring Port Lincoln National Park

Fussell Family Simpson Adventure - Heading ...

Day trip to Sir Isaac Point

Sydney to Murrumbidgee river.

Murrumbidgee River

Why go camping?

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Coffin Bay national park

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Today, we had to move early. The tides on Coffin Bay National Park seven mile beach are low at 8:30am. Up at piccaninnie dawn (just before sunrise) and away. We s

Created: 25 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 4140

Mungo National Park

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We drove from Wentworth to Mungo viaThe Darling Run and Top Hut Road. Top Hut Rd was really rough with half the clay capping worn away. We camped at main camp. There were lots of people here,...

Created: 05 Oct 2013 00:00 Views: 3605

Going to Gawler Ranges (Mt Ive station)

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A fairly sleepless night with wild winds in SA. Packed up, took the slow track out of memory cove, and resupplied at port Lincoln. Hitting the road was hard as the whole family was tired....

Created: 01 Oct 2013 00:00 Views: 3398

Hay to Murray sunset national park

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A spot of overnight rain caught us out, as we had left the tent fly off to save time. The kids woke us up as water was dripping on them and more importantly their pillow pets....

Created: 20 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 3304

Fussell Family Simpson Adventure - French line, Knolls tk, Rig rd

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Today we start the morning with jaffles (toasted sandwiches). It seems the good people from the Hema map patrol were camping behind our nearest dune. We said hello to them as they started at 8am....

Created: 21 Jun 2015 03:00 Views: 3276

Leaving Coffin Bay National Park

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We're still in Coffin Bay National Park. We woke up today to a bit more wind and thought we'd move out. Low tyre pressu

Created: 27 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 3273

A rough summary of Burke & Wills

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Burke was an explorer in the early days of Australia. He tried to cross the continent from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpenteria, and back again in 1860. He died on the return journey....

Created: 30 Jun 2015 10:00 Views: 3176

Our Trip to the Eyre Region September 2013

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Hi, This year we're going to the Eyre Region of SA. Our Plans are to see Port Lincoln National Park, Coffin Bay National Park and Gawler Ranges....

Created: 15 Sep 2013 11:03 Views: 3162

Fussell Family Simpson Adventure - Innamincka to Merty Merty

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Today we're leaving Innamincka. Before we go though, we visit burkes gravesite. He died of starvation next to a superb waterhole, which was full of fish, with bush tucker plants all around....

Created: 03 Jul 2015 03:00 Views: 2963

A day exploring Port Lincoln National Park

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Today we travelled around the park a bit. We really liked the beach at September beach, but not so much the campsite (a bit too formalised). Fisherman's point looked good,...

Created: 24 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2940

Fussell Family Simpson Adventure - Heading east into the Simpson desert

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We're good. About to get back into those beautiful red sand dunes. This time the plan is rig rd, knolls track, qaa line... But we'll see what happens....

Created: 25 Jun 2015 03:00 Views: 2935

Day trip to Sir Isaac Point

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Last night we were hit by high winds and rain at our Morgans Landing campsite. I thought this site would be more protected from the south westerly winds,...

Created: 26 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2932

Sydney to Murrumbidgee river.

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After leaving Sydney at 6am, the Fussell family drove, and drove. We stopped at the Coolac store, just off the Hume hwy. Tony remembers this not long ago as being the main road....

Created: 19 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2907

Murrumbidgee River

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Today we left mungo national park via Balranald. Then headed east along the Sturt Highway. We stopped for lunch next to the river at Hay at "the long paddock trail"....

Created: 06 Oct 2013 00:00 Views: 2876

Why go camping?

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To my Dad, I love you to bits but I know you don't understand the point of camping when you have all the wonders of modern resources at your finger tips at home....

Created: 21 Jun 2015 06:00 Views: 2828

2 Days at Memory Cove

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Nice place. On Sunday it was stunning weather. The kids played on the whiter than white beach, and we relaxed. We went for a nice walk to the point and Tony had some more Coffin Bay oysters....

Created: 30 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2820

Fussell Family Simpson Adventure - Poeppel corner

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This morning we had perfect light for photos, where the orange sand glowed. Tonight, we are about as in the middle of nowhere as you can get anywhere on earth. There is no one around....

Created: 20 Jun 2015 05:00 Views: 2676

Fussell Family Simpson Adventure - Back to Sydney via Goobang National Park

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Yesterday was just a big and boring drive day from Louth to somewhere near Parkes. We stayed overnight in the Goobang National Park at Wanda Wondong camping area....

Created: 07 Jul 2015 21:00 Views: 2665

Fussell Family Simpson Adventure - WAA line

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The WAA line ( Simpson Desert WAA Line ) is by far the best road we have been down. No "staircases", and a reasonably smooth road. We stopped for morning tea on the top of a dune,...

Created: 22 Jun 2015 03:00 Views: 2663

Travel to Memory cove

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Mainly a travel and resupply day. Katie and Jacqui did some girl powered canoeing on coffin bay early. The boys washed some of the mud off the patrol. A drive back to port Lincoln, shop,...

Created: 28 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2567

Finishing our SA Eyre Peninsula trip.

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Last night we listened to the grunts and calls of a male koala as he patrolled the area we camped in at the MIA 1 national park. Today we're packing up for the final time as we push on to ...

Created: 07 Oct 2013 01:00 Views: 2504

Mount Ive to SA Riverlands

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Today we started to head home. Out of the red dirt from the Gawler ranges and heading east to Sydney. Our planned overnighter at Redbanks Conservation Park looked pretty average and with no ...

Created: 03 Oct 2013 00:00 Views: 2491

Seafood at Spalding Cove

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On Sunday at Port Lincoln we couldn't get seafood as the fish markets were shut. Today Jacqui thought we'd give it a go ourselves. As the tide went out, the pippies looked plentiful....

Created: 23 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2419

Fussell Family Simpson Adventure - Wrap up

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It's been a bit over a week since we came home, and I thought I'd wrap up our trip Best Camping: In the dunes of the Simpson desert....

Created: 17 Jul 2015 13:38 Views: 2397

2 days of driving, but we're now on the Eyre peninsula

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On Saturday we drove from Renmark and made our way around to the Eyre peninsula. On the way we stopped on Peterborough for lunch at the [url=https://www.facebook....

Created: 22 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2376

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