Wednesday It's off this morning for Big red take 2. Quite a few more cars out here this morning and after letting the tyres down we head up Little Red. As we reach the top there is a car parked on the track with all four people out alongside it. Given that we're driving in sand I don't know how Martin manoeuvred the Patrol to avoid them. Four adults and not a brain between them. Once down the other side we turned right and headed over to Big Red. There is a lin...

Tuesday I was right - not much sleep as the wind kept up all night long. There were a few times I thought we were going to blow over and I was sure there'd be no annexe left in the morning but as daylight came we found everything was OK. The wind is still extremely gusty (up to 60kms by some reports) so the trip back out to Big Red is postponed. We thought it best to leave the car where it was to act as a wind break and we stayed all day at camp. Well actually...

Monday We've decided to go out to Big Red today and give it a go. Big Red is at the start of the Simpson Desert and is the tallest of the 1000 odd sand dunes. As we arrive at Little Red there are a few cars waiting, a few people who are climbing up and a few people just watching. Martin lets the tyres down and with the sand flag attached we take off up and over. It's quite steep on the way down and once down we turn right to head over to Big Red. When we arriv...

Sunday Another hot day today so after breakfast we take a drive out to the racecourse and then back into town. We stop at the roadhouse and then walk up to the ruins of the old Hotel, the old hospital and then over to the Birdsville Bakery. Martin had a meat pie and hot chips and I had a curried camel pie - yum. There are a few more trucks in town now getting all set up - food vendors and souvenir stands. Back at camp we put the front wall up on the annexe to ...

Saturday Not much sleep last night and Martin did most of the packing up this morning while I laid in bed. Had a shower before we left while Martin topped up the water tanks then we left to fill up with fuel. Chris and Shirley were at the info centre when we arrived to return the key but it didn't open for another 20 minutes. There was a return box but Shirley offered to wait and return both keys and catch up with us at Birdsville. Martin gave them our phone nu...