Meetup in the Middle Trip thread.

[Winnie]

We hit the Birdsville bakery for lunch (a curried camel pie, yum)


Then it was off to the caravan park to set up camp, then straight to the pub! We had an awesome BBQ at the pub for tea and a lot of beers to suit...
We had a photo at the pub in the morning.



Repairs made in Birdsville were, Rossco had a new brake line made, I got an exhaust mount re-welded, and Roofy got a new idler pulley. How good is that!

Darren, AB, Snicko, Stropp and myself left Birdsville to head down into the corner country, we had another camel pie and went to Haddon's corner for the night.
On the way...




Haddon's corner, we camped about 200m from here.


In the morning we left Haddon's and were headed for Cameron's corner. We stopped at The Dig Tree on the way.




About 10kms from Cameron's Corner, Stropp had a massive tyre blowout, Darren helped him change it there and after some confusion on the radio with a random stranger, AB and I turned back and arrived as the job was finished. Great help we are!
We stayed the night at Cameron's Corner


We left Snicko (Nigel-no-friends) and Neville at Cameron's and headed in different directions. After a really hard slog behind the wheel, we made it to Broken Hill at about 3 and decided to stay the night. We went to the Demo Club for a meal and it was so good, just what we needed! Stropp even tried seducing AB and Darren with oysters.
In the morning we were off to Hungry Jacks for a quick breakfast and coffee and we left Stropp here. An 11 hour drive to do 1000kms, and I arrived home before 8pm for a quick meal, shower and straight to bed!



Guys I had such an amazing trip, I hope I have the opportunity to do a trip like that again. I really look forward to everyone elses photos.

[Winnie]

I have told you guys before about that.... at least take it out and clean?

Thanks so much Winnie for posting up those fuel consumption notes... that is a great help for me.

Which app is that?

You can't clean out an oiled filter while on the road. Keep in mind those fuel figures are fully loaded, full tanks etc... AB and I got over 1000kms from our tanks at 15L/100 which is higher than normal.
The app is called Fuel Log, make sure you get the paid version of it.

Thanks Winnie, keep it up, it's all starting to make sense now! Lol.

A request, can you include everyone's forum name when referring to them. I'm still not sure who eventually went, & some of the 'real' names I'm not familiar with. (Like who is Neville? ....... Sorry Neville).

Neville is Snicko's husband, Kat is Katwoman, Steve is Kat's husband and I'm sure you know that Darren is Mudrunner!

Did you encounter much dunny paper every where??
Brings back fond memories, thanks heaps

No mate, did not see any dunny paper.

Who was organised enough to bring the spit roast along? Pretty impressive stuff!

That was me. I bought especially so I can say I had a spit roast in the desert... yeah it tasted good too!

The auspit was great. The meat cooked well but slowly and when done the vegis were Raw! We rested the meat and put the vegis back on and dropped them to just off the coals and they were awesome in 20minutes.

Winnie bought the setup off eBay second hand for a song and turned up in the middle of the Simpson with it still with the previous owners D Cell batteries and No Spares!!! Needless to say as the thing slowed Rossco gave him curry about it not making it to the end! Was funny and yummy.

Oh come on, it was fine in the end! Just read, the two D cell batteries last a minimum of 90 hours.... okay maybe I should buy a pack of batteries.

[MudRunnerTD]

Thanks for the pics mate, I think I will do what you have done and upload to photo bucket rather than use the app for the pics. They look soo much better in that size rather than a thumbnail.

Great job mate.

I Hope Shaggs drops in with a trip report too she was manic with the camera!

[Bloodyaussie]

Thanks Winnie.... thought you lost the love... yes you can clean out an oiled filter.

[Winnie]

Thanks Winnie.... thought you lost the love... yes you can clean out an oiled filter.

Not while travelling like we were. I would have had to soak it, then use heaps of water (which is gold out there) to wash it and let it dry overnight then re-oil it... like I said, I should have taken a spare.

[Cuppa]

Thanks again Winnie..... great stuff.

[threedogs]

Good stuff but that tree with the face is not the "Dig Tree'
Dig tree has a blaze with dig inscribed in it. I fell for it too
Great app , looks like weather was on your side too

[Winnie]

I did not fall for it at all, look at the photo underneath that one.
The carving of the face was cool so I took a photo.

[AB]

Good stuff but that tree with the face is not the "Dig Tree'
Dig tree has a blaze with dig inscribed in it. I fell for it too
Great app , looks like weather was on your side too

Great write up Winnie!!!

The dig tree is right beside that tree about 20m away but it's getting harder to read these days!

[threedogs]

best tree has the face what do they charge now for a visit ?looking good seeing it was done around 1860
worse road in Aus was the Dig tree rd back to Innaminka before the grader came through
Sounds like you're hooked Winnie it is a big country plenty to see. now fill in your map of Aust
and ponder where to go next, Cape York maybe ??????