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!!