Hard to drag myself away from the KJM desert hotel with its luxury.

The ride was uneventful, straight up between the dunes until the last curving 10 km in to Innamincka.

Innamincka was a couple of houses and businesses catering …

Pack up camp and discover that the broken mounting clamp on the front pannier actually should be holding something on! Investigate further and find a couple more pannier bolts that have shaken loose on the corrugations and gibbers over the …

Checked out the Dig Tree, one of Australia’s most famous landmarks. It was here that explorers Burke, Wills and King returned from their historic first south-to-north crossing of the continent only to find that their supply party had left the …

What a rough day!!

Basically the first four hours were straight into a 30-40 km/hr (estimate) headwind on a road that was mostly 50/50 drifting sand (get off and walk) or hard clayey-sand base. Very hard work so that for …

Rain and a leaking tent that blew flat in the wind (yeah, the CTAWA club riders know the story of my tent’s propensity to lie down in a crosswind) made for an uncomfortable night. Still, no damage done and back …

No one else was at Haddon Corner last night so very peaceful.

A slow retrace of the corrugated, gibber strewn, dusty track out to the Arrabury Road starting with push/pulling the loaded bike over the soft sand track over the …

Hard work today.

The road is a minor road short-cutting from Winton down to the Birdsville road. It is basically the old stock route following the Farrars Creek down towards the Sturt’s Stoney Desert. As such, much of the road …

A simple day – get a hundred metres onto the road and discover that the handlebar bag bouncing over the corrugations had worn through the gear cable covers over the front wheel. The gear cables couldn’t support compression so I …

No snakes overnight despite camping on deeply cracked grey soils on a shrubby creek bank! No rain either so all good.

A quick first 20 km on good road with a tailwind past the Davenport house to the boundary of …

Chris Mitchell the National Parks ranger told me how to get to the Diamantina Gates (a gorge through which the river surges when in flood) and saw me on my way. Thanks for the talk about the recovery in soil …