Simpson

Saturday, 15 August 2026 This morning we woke up in Morgan, nearly 600 kilometres into our journey home. With another 800 kilometres to travel before we could wake up in our own bed tomorrow morning, we didn’t waste any time having another hot shower (we enjoyed the luxury of a shower before bed last night!) […]

Friday, 14 August 2026 This morning we woke to a heavy dew on the fly of our swag and a beautiful sunrise. We were also able to properly appreciate the campsite that we pulled into late yesterday. Although the campsite has toilets and showers we only made use of the toilets, choosing to use wet

Thursday, 13 August 2026 This morning we ate some fruit in our room before heading to Karrawa Wirinya Coffee again for breakfast. We didn’t have enough cereal to last until we get home, so we treated ourselves to a couple of purchased breakfasts. And sometimes if something is really good the first time you have

Wednesday, 12 August 2026 Today was spent in Birdsville. First known as Diamantina Crossing, Birdsville was founded in the late 1870s. In 1890 it had a population of around 400, three hotels and a customs post. Today its population is around a quarter of that and only one hotel remains in operation. We met the

  Tuesday, 11 August 2026 I went to sleep last night with my beanie on. With my head lovely and warm all night I slept so much better than the night before. With all the bird life on the creek last night we thought that we would be woken at first light this morning with

Monday, 10 August 2026 It was cold, cold, COLD overnight! I ended up dragging my fleece beanie out of my puffer vest pocket in the middle of the night to keep my head warm. Fortunately, I was wearing my puffer vest and beanie when I went into the swag last night, so I had them

  Sunday, 9 August 2026 After finishing the blogging last night we thought we could hear an owl calling?? A quick Google search revealed that both boo-book and southern barn owls can be found in the Simpson Desert, but I couldn’t hear it well enough to say if it WAS an owl, let alone what

Saturday, 8 August 2026 It was a much milder night last night compared with Thursday night, so we were very warm and cozy in our swag and slept well. The most difficult part of this whole camping lark is the crawling into the swag each night and then trying to crawl back out again in

Friday, 7 August 2026 We have learnt something from our four-wheel driving adventure. UHT milk does not travel well. Ugh! We already had the tetra pack of UHT milk in the fridge spring a slow leak, but we put that down to the humidity in the fridge AND the bouncing around compromising the cardboard’s structure.

Thursday, 6 August 2026 I forgot to mention that, when we opened our swag bag last night, we had brought a couple of hitchhikers with us in the shape of two big, fat, hairy caterpillars. I managed to coax them onto a stick and I deposited them into a nearby tree hoping that they will