Up at 6:00am and hit the road after throwing a couple of rocks at the"Enjoy the Birdsville Track" sign that had been mocking me all night - peering over me like the eyes of T.J. Eckleberg. It was a lot more comfortable riding in the relative cool of early morning - not that was cool - my thermometer said it never got below 41 all night - but that was cool compared to the furnace I've been riding through for the past 2 days. It was a fairly uneventful ride - exc...

So I've started the trip down The Birdsville Track - today my plan was to get about 100kms down the track tonight and the get up at sunrise tomorrow - about 5:45am and try and do the 220kms to The Mungeranie Roadhouse before it gets too hot. The real heat of day seems to come on around 2:00pm - by then everything, rocks, dirt, bricks etc has had the full day sucking up heat - so by 2:00pm you've got the overpowering heat of the sun plus all the radiated heat fro...

Today I start my trip down The Birdsville Track - I'll be out of mobile/Internet coverage so I'll update you as soon as I can expect 3 or 4 days!!

In Bedurie today - but there's no mobile coverage here so who knows when this will appear on my blog. Carrying on from yesterday at Boulia and The Min Min Lights. Did I compare them with the Southern Aurora and The Northern Lights?? I shouldn't have - turns out The Min Min Lights are not much more than legend perpetuated by the locals - strange "balls of light" that follow cars and race off when you get near. Theories include ignited underground gases, and a bu...

I've been doing some research on flies - did you know there are about 20 million trillion flies in Australia!!?! That's about 1 trillion flies for each one of us and I've got most of mine following me today. If 2 flies do the wild thing in April - they could produce up to 191,010,000,000,000,000,000 progeny by August!! My new fly net is great for keeping flies off but eating is a nightmare!! The second you get the food out flies attack it - obviously you've go...