Interesting place Birdsville, nothing much here but they have a small lake and it has a croc in it, they fish in it, catching yellow bellies which soak in a salt water and vinegar mix , which gets rid of the muddy taste and then its not bad at all. There are four old guys with a couple of early twenties Dodges which they are driving across Oz, they left this am and got abt 500 yards down the road when one had an autovac fail, which they replaced with a britis...

Good roads (even tho just hardcore it means good progress) , heading for Hughenden, spent night at Porcupine gorge, it's very 'green 'place no fires or rubbish to be left, toilets are hybrid, whatever that means, not that we leave anything anyway, but we do like a fire at night, set ourselves up …kangaroos are around and some small quokka type animals hopping around us, lovely really to see how unafraid of us they are, settle down for the night and these lit...

Interesting place Birdsville, nothing much here but they have a small lake and it has a croc in it, they fish in it, catching yellow bellies which soak in a salt water and vinegar mix , which gets rid of the muddy taste and then its not bad at all. There are four old guys with a couple of early twenties Dodges which they are driving across Oz, they left this am and got abt 500 yards down the road when one had an autovac fail, which they replaced with a britis...

Kings Canyon camp The night the rains came down, we had luckily put up our new side tent, great as in morning we were snug and dry, a good choice that side tent that day.., but once out of the tent, realized the awning was full of water, lowered one side and prob solved , must remember for the future, couple of niggling problems resolved, the Landy water system is weeping and needs a cupful top up every day, we'd renewed the gasket before we came plus hve a s...

Having trouble getting through on computer, missed the chance at Kal and Laverton couldn't get through, Kings Canyon, they have a Pie company that wants to sign u up, as we are now at Alice we hope get this sent, currently going to copy this onto a memory stick and onto Alf.s computer as he seems to hve a better contact with rest of the world than us….fingers crossed After stopping the night at Hyden, we proceeded to the Eastern Highway joining it just af...