Thread: birdsville trip aussie 2015

Birdsville has a population of just over a hundred that climbs to between 7 and 9000 people for the event.
The ones with signposts on it give you a look where we were and an image of the distances from everywhere.
I was in aussie 8 odd years before I did the trip but until I did it I still didn't grasp the size of the place. We did close to 900ks one day. GPS put us crook a little and we didn't really get the advantage of the distance covered.
Sunrise above is about 40ks out of Birdsville. We were running out of day and you don't ride anywhere rural over there at night time. To many critters out there to run into.
Im deadly serious about that. We always found somewhere to stay before it got too dark.
The pic with Marbles pointing at an old run down building is the old royal hotel opened in 1883 that turned into a hospital. in 1923 to 1937(good old google)
Cameron corner is the border between NSW, QLD and SA.
The sign saying Eromanga above, that is the furthest point from the coast in Australia which also does opals apparently
The pic with me and a long road behind in the tip of the lake Eyre basin which feeds into one of the major water catchments of Australia. It covers 1/6th of the country.
The old playground is in Barringun, the closest pub in NSW to the QLD border on our route. Only 1 k away
We had a beer at the pub and a quick chat with Australia's oldest publican Mary Crawley (I found her name when I looked up Barringun. Couldn't remember if it was in QLD or NSW). She apparently put it up for sale in 2017 aged 93.
She was 91 in the photo below and her grandson helped run it






better shot of coopers creek/cooper crossing where we camped one night


This is Windorah where they do yabbie (fresh water/crawlie) racing on the road a day out from when the Birdsville races start. You can see the temporary bleachers/seating where the spectators sit.
It had finished when we get there. as posted earlier its over 400ks from our destination and the last fuel stop on our route