10,508km. Home sweet home.

Left William Creek at 7am in the dark this morning. The Discovery has developed a vibration above 94kph, so it's slow going at the moment. Hopefully it is just mud causing the wheels to be out of balance and we can find a pressure washer in one of the next few towns. Aiming to hit Mildura tonight.

After a swim and a wash this morning at Dalhousie Springs, we headed off at 10:45am. The challenge for today is to see if Chris has enough fuel to get to Mt.Dare. The detours around the flooded salt lakes have really eaten into the usage of our fuel. 23km short of Mt Dare Chris ran out of fuel. I (happily...) drove into Mt Dare, filled up my car and Chris's jerry can and made the return journey. This road would be the worst section of road we have driven this...

Simpson Desert Day 4, Wednesday 27th July. Traveled 188km to Dalhousie Springs. The road into Dalhousie which is normally very dry and rocky was corrugated, muddy, rocky, sandy and flooded in some parts. Spoke to the ranger, who advised us that the Simpson Desert has been open for only 9 days. We were lucky to be able to do the crossing, but it was worth being one of first few to cross this season. Photo is of Amity dumping our rubbish in the dingo-proof ru...

Simpson Desert Day 3, Tuesday 26th July. Tonight we burn!!! Wood was a bit of a challenge this evening but we have enough to keep warm once the 26 degree sun goes down. Today we drove 110km from Poeppel Corner to a flat between two sand dunes 7km west of Erabena Junction on the French Line. Lots of sand dunes that are chewed up on both sides. They are easy to traverse and neither of us had to stop or redo any. The slow going is dips which are about twice the ...