In 1939 Cecil Madigan led a nine-man scientific expedition on camels across the northern sector of the Sandridge Desert.
After wet weather and COVID restrictions scuttled our plans to follow Madigan’s route in 2021 we were now lined up for another crack at the desert crossing, along with most of our travelling companions from last attempt.
For the second year in a row we’re lucky enough to be heading west, on an outback loop that will take use through far western NSW, looping around SA and heading into the NT before cutting across the Simpson Desert back into Queensland at Birdsville.
Well sometimes you’ve got to get lucky with timing, and today we did. We happened to be in Birdsville on day that the town’s famous bakery reopened! We were front and centre to get some supplies for our trip toward home before heading for fuel and then leaving town.
An early start and a few short miles had us crossing the border out of the NT and into the Sunshine State, welcome home for the Travelling Two. Our 630km run southward today took us along the Donohue Highway to Boulia, then down a series of development roads through the channel country to Birdsville.