Blog 8 Days 24-32 Dates: 5th June – 12th July Woomera to Coober Pedy: 575km Total distance: 2486km I divided this blog into two parts because it is bookended by visits to two renowned opal mining towns – but there was too much information for one blog entry. Day 28 68km The ride from Beresford […]
Cycling
Following the Ghan Railways (Old and New)
Blog 6 Dates: 28th June – 3rd July Marree – Port Augusta – Woomera: 575km Total distance: 1961km — Day 18 Marree to Lyndhurst – 83km It rained solidly the whole time we were in Marree and with no chance of the Oodnadatta Track opening for at least a week, possibly two weeks, I had […]
The Birdsville Track
Blog 5 Days 12 – 16 Dates – 22th-26th June Total distance – 1386km The Birdsville Track – Birdsville to Marree – 527km The Birdsville Track was opened in the 1860s to walk cattle from northern Queensland and the Northern Territory to the nearest railhead in Port Augusta, which was later moved to Marree. Percy Burt was the pioneering drover credited […]
The long way to Birdsville
Blog 3 Dates – 14th-19th June Distance – 519km Total distance – 859km — Day 4 Innamincka to the Dig Tree 58km On reaching Innamincka, the first thing we needed to find out was whether I could cycle to Birdsville from there. The planned route along the Cordillo Road was closed due to flooding and […]
Adapting from the start
Blog 2 Start (Toona Gate Road, 90km from Tibooburra) – Innamincka Dates – 11th – 13th June Distance – 340.1km Our drive up to Tibooburra ended up being quite eventful. We collected Gelareh from the airport and headed north but the main road was totally blocked due to flash flooding. After Martin winched a couple […]
On the runway and ready to go!
Blog 2 6th and 7th February Total distance: 21km The 6th February was a huge day, leaving my hotel at 4am to get to Cape Town International airport in time for the 6am flight. It was an incredible thrill to board an Airbus bound for Wolf’s Fang Runway, Antarctica! Travelling with me (in First Class […]
Head down ’til the finish
Blog 13 Londres to San Francisco Pass/the Argentine-Chile border 19th – 21st April 2022 Days 51 – 53 Distance – 327km Total distance – 3248km TOTAL DISTANCE FOR 2020/2022 EXPEDITIONS – 4354km This journey began in 2020 (before the onset of the pandemic) from Cusco in Peru, the capital of the ancient Incan Empire. Given […]
A Corner Country crash
Blog 5 16th-17th May Total Distance: 1528km Apologies for taking a while to publish this blog, but by the end of it you will understand why! Tibooburra Day 16 Rest day I found my day off in Tibooburra in the extreme northwest corner of New South Wales to be a very interesting, even relaxing break! […]
