We arrived in Coober Pedy, the opal mining capital of the world on Tuesday staying at Stuart Range Caravan Park. Apart from opal mining, Coober Pedy is famous for its underground homes […]
Coober Pedy, South Australia
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a camping trip of ridiculous proportions
Railway Ghost Towns
Googs Track terminated at the Transcontinental Railway Line at Malbooma, from here we took the track following the railway line east towards Stuart Highway. The track passed through the towns Tarcoola and Kingoonya, that […]
Googs Track, South Australia
Googs Track is a 200km 4WD track that runs along the eastern edge of the Great Victoria Desert in South Australia that covers more than 300 parallel sand dunes before meeting the Transcontinental Railway Line at Malbooma. We left […]
I think I’ve just climbed the wrong mountain…
I think I’ve just climbed the wrong mountain. I just scrambled to the top of what I thought was Mt Finke and look across to see an even bigger mountain with what […]
South Coast Chapter closed – reflections of a fisherman
Fish Count: 21 (under sized fish excluded) Rigs lost: 1 As we depart the coast I can’t help but reflect on the last two months of fishing. As you can see from […]
Murat Bay, Ceduna, South Australia
Another awesome evening tonight. Last few days in Ceduna have been sunny, warm and calm. At the moment we are watching the sun go down over the jetty and thought we’d whip out […]
Denial Bay, South Australia – success!
Today we stopped by the Denial Bay jetty to try our luck with more crab and squid fishing on our way back to Ceduna. It was the last opportunity for Joe to […]
Davenport Creek Beach, South Australia. Mulloway Conquered.
Yesterday we drove 20km from Ceduna and camped at Devonport Creek Beach (and got bogged driving on the beach and had to use the maxtrax to bail us out). This is the first […]
Spatulacraft
Check out the new article on Joe’s favourite hobby – spatulacraft. https://outbackjoe.com/macho-divertissement/spatulacraft/
Our sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and final stop along the Nullarbor, South Australia
Yesterday we crossed the border into South Australia. We stopped at Ecula for a shower and a bite to eat before we left WA. While we were there we checked out the […]
Our second, third, fourth and fifth stop along the Nullarbor – Caguina, Cocklebiddy, Madura, & Mundrabilla, Western Australia
You could easily drive from Balladonia to the border of South Australia without stopping as it is only 500km but Joe and I are very excited to be experiencing the Nullarbor and […]
Our first stop along the Nullarbor – Balladonia, Western Australia
Excited to finally reach civilization and sealed road we arrived at Balladonia which is the first stop along the Nullarbor after Norseman. Balladonia is famous for the 1974 Skylab Crash and even has […]
The drive out of Cape Arid National Park and across Balladonia Road and the UNDIES GATE!
The track out from Mt Ragged and Cape Arid National Park onto Balladonia Road was 60km of grueling corrugations, mud holes and rocky outcrops. To put that into perspective it took us […]
Climbing Mt Ragged, Cape Arid National Park, Western Australia
Mt Ragged in Cape Arid National Park is a 585 meter high mountain roughly 40km from the coast. In preparation of the climb Joe crafted me a hiking stick out of a […]
Mt Ragged Camp, Cape Arid National Park, Western Australia
Finally arriving at Mt Ragged in Cape Arid National Park after our epic effort to get there from Israelite Bay we set up camp for three nights at the rarely used Mt Ragged campsite. […]
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