The White Ox

If like us, you dream about the desert, take a ride with us through the Madigan Line to Birdsville.

If like us, you dream about the desert, take a ride with us from The Gibson Desert towards the Madigan Line, with historical & trip informat

Perhaps this was the last of the hard journeys I had started out upon so hopefully 28 years before, to end them in this desert place.

And then to Birdsville, straight to the famous hotel, where we had a couple of beers, chatted to Colin behind the bar, who was very friendly

In fact it only started to get slightly challenging again when we hit the QAA line , which eventually got us to Big Red at about 2pm

At Annandale, we not only found the ruins, but water! The Eyre creek still had some milky residue between its clay bottomed banks

There was a large divot on our left side, the wheel had gone in it, & we were tipping slightly into it. It seemed too risky to continue with

The hardest thing was that the track up the dunes was very bumpy, with significant dips and crests that rock the truck

They could also tell us about the Madigan Track, which was hugely helpful, they told us it was more challenging than the Hay River

We’re following the Hay River Bank, which means no real dunes to cross, and it doesn’t change much, but it’s still lovely, the track is fair

I woke up totally fatigued this morning. Jade woke me up with an elbow to the ribs… I was in the midst of a disturbing nightmare, and fel...

Sunrise WAS in fact, bloody magical. Getting out of bed at 5.30am was a struggle, but it was worth it when the light hit Uluru. I had got...

The great central road was corrugated as hell, but very beautiful, though we didn’t stop as much as we’d have liked so we could make the mos

We got to Bungabiddy rockhole at around 3pm where we had a walk and a swim in the somewhat green waters, but it was lovely all the same.

We managed a reasonably early start, and set about fixing the mounting bracket immediately. We quite quickly realised that the way Jade had

This morning I woke up to see bright luminous orange behind the clouds, and a whispered roaring wind around us, which made the temperature

Monday 1st October 2018 - The Davenport Hills Back in the NT, on a new track. I must admit that I’m a bit sad to have left the Canning, and

The first part of our videos of the Canning Stock Route

Shane then showed us the ranger station, the maps with hundreds of identified water spots that the Martu people had found in choppers and on

Insider information on the remote community, and the Martu people who live there. Day 7 Kunawarritji - 634km Well, we didn’t get very far...