landscape | Scrags In The Outback

6 Dec

Day 118 – Horsham-bound to the Rasmussen Ranch

Woke up to an awesome view across the valley and plains and water in the morning with the sunrise at Hancock’s Lookout. Smashing out the drive today – 722km on the clock today to get us to the Rasmussen villa...
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13 Oct

Day 64 – Bungle Bungles South

Once everyone was packed and ready to go, we started the slow and steady drive down south to the Bungle Bungle turn off in convoy with the boys. The stops for smoko and topping up cold bottled water were actually...
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12 Oct

Day 63 – Emma Gorge

Off we trek to the Gibb River Road! …well, just the very start bit of it. The one section that’s bitumen. So it’s not really that hardcore. We were heading for Emma Gorge for the morning to have a walk...
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28 Sep

Day 46-49 – Jatbula Trail, Nitmiluk National Park

Day 1: We’d woken up super early and pre-arranged a car drop off at the end of the trail with the wonderful Cecilia and the gang from Tindall so we headed out with the troops at 6am to get us...
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3 Sep

Day 30 – Alice Springs to Tennant Creek

Today was another driving day as we said goodbye to the gang at Alice Springs and got on the long road up north. We followed the awesome yet slightly terrifying unrestricted speed limit signs (‘Drive to conditions’) all the way up...
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1 Sep

Day 28 – West MacDonnell Ranges

Guy had written us up an itinerary for the day to head out to the West MacDonnell Ranges and go for some walks around the beautiful gorges and rock formations that the region was famous for, so we drove out...
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28 Aug

Day 24 – Kings Canyon

No sunrise at the rock today as we opted for a sleep in instead! After some breakfast we packed up and took the road out of Uluru towards Kings Canyon to do the popular walk around the rim of the...
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27 Aug

Day 23 – Uluru and Kata Tjuta

Snoozed the alarm a couple of times but we managed to get up, pack up and race to the sunrise viewing spot just in time to catch the sun peeking up above the horizon and throwing the warm red light...
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25 Aug

Day 21 – Coober Pedy

Zach cooked us a greek breakfast of eggs and feta and olives and a dash of grappa in omelette form, which was an amazing start to the day. We followed him in his 4WD out to Crocodile Harry’s dugout, which...
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24 Aug

Day 20 – Lake Eyre to Coober Pedy

A little hungover and very tired from the sun and dust from the bronco branding yesterday, it was a fair effort to get up and be ready to go at 9am for a scenic flight from the William Creek airstrip...
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