From Mt Isa we continued east along the Flinders Highway (The Overlander Way), past a monument to the local Kalkadoon Aboriginal people (who didn’t fare well at the hands of early settlers and their Native Police cohorts) and an obelisk at a spot where Burke and Wills travelled on their way north in January 1861. […]
The Big Lap – Part 8: Into The Great Beyond
Stocked up, fuelled up and psyched up, we were ready to launch up the Great Central Road (GCR), into the ‘Great Beyond’. Here’s how it unfolded. Day 1 (310km) out of Laverton wasn’t too bad, an unsealed road of fine gravel and soft, sandy corrugations, with a couple of attractions – the colourful Giles Breakaway […]
The Big Lap – Part 4 The Red Highway
The sun, dust and red roads go forever as we cross outback south Australia The main roads bifurcate on the northern outskirts of Port Augusta, the Eyre Highway branching west and the Stuart Highway veering northward for 2,700km, all the way to Darwin. The latter approximates the route that John McDouall Stuart took when he […]