One more sleep..................

[Oneputt]

..................and then I am out of here.

Shane (Big Red) and his passenger Michael (Hilux99) and myself and my passenger Kevin (Mitedo) are off to a little travelled part of the Simpson Desert for three weeks.

We are heading out past Birdsville to Poeppels Corner and then instead of continuing west or turning South West we are going to head north into the northern part of the desert and try to follow the path of the dry Hay River across the northern Simpson.

This area is rarely travelled and in places there is not so much as a track, and navigation is via GPS waypoints of places of interest, such as abandoned oil drilling wells.

We have a permit from the Central Land Council to cross the Atnetye Aboriginal land which covers a fair portion of our crossing. When we leave Poeppels Corner which is about 120 klms into the Simpson past Birdsville we will have another 500 plus klms of desert until the next available place to get fuel at a place called Jervois.

We have prepared well and just can't wait to get going.

[TonyH]

Sounds absolutely FANTASTIC....!

Looking forward to your postings and perhaps a full update at a meet on your return.

Stay safe and enjoy!


Tony

[birddog114]

To the Team,
Sound a great trip to me and I'm alway dreaming of.
Enjoy! Have a safe & nice trip All.
Report back in due course with ton of photos taken.

[bindiblue]

What an awesome trip,, looking forward to seeing some great photos in 3 weeks time.

Have fun,

suzanne

[DionM]

You lucky buggers.

[big pix]

...... a great and safe trip to all......... happy shooting.........

[PiroStitch]

have a great trip to all. don't forget to bring your batteries

[owen]

Have a great trip and take heaps of photos. On that note, do you have any restrictions from the council on what you can and can't take photos of?

[the foto fanatic]

Should be spectacular - enjoy!

[radar]

WOW, amazing trip in store for you guys. Have a safe trip and looking forward to some amazing photos when you are back.

Happy travels,

André

[Oneputt]

Owen the permit conditions do not list any restrictions on photography which is good as there will be heaps to shoot.

[stubbsy]

I hope you all have a great trip with no major mechanical problems. Having seen the images from your last outback outing, I look forward to the quality images I know you guys will capture.

[Glen]

Good luck, sounds like a great trip and safe home

[gstark]

Good luck and stay safe.

And enjoy yourselves. Sounds like a challenging, but wonderful trip has been planned.

[MATT]

Have fun and stay out of trouble..

we dont need to have a minimeet out in the desert looking for you all .


enjoy and cant wait to see some pics.

MATT

[xerubus]

sounds like an awesome adventure! stay safe and look forward to seeing some great shots.

cheers

[Zeeke]

Good luck John, dont touch the home brew tooo much

Take care mate and look forward to hearing about your trip when you return... sounds like it will be an adventure!!

Tim

[avkomp]

sounds like a great trip.

wish it was me going.

sTeve

[ozczecho]

sounds like an awesome trip - filled with heaps of photo ops....have a great time guys and look forward to seeing your output.

[Manta]

Best wishes John and crew. It'll be interesting to see the results of the Nikon v Pentax shoot-out.

Steph and I wish you a safe and fun trip.

(PS - I certainly hope Shane turns his work phone off - be a bugger to have to come all the way back for a job!! )

[wendellt]

sounds amazing and skillfully well planned

i wish you a great experience

[Slider]

Safe journey guys. Look forward to the pics.

[LostDingo]

Sounds like a dream trip

The fellowship of good friends with like interests will go well and I sure will be a trip of a lifetime!!!!

[Bodak]

Be safe you lucky buggers

[Dug]

Have a safe trip and great shooting !

I have one more sleep to my P51 flight the fisheye lens I have borrowed has gone missing in the post system and take off is at 10 am

It will be a fun morning I am not looking forward to dealing with Australia post in the morning.

cheers looking forward to seeing your photos when you get home.

doug

[SteveGriffin]

Jon, Take it steady over Big Red and have a great time! Looking forward to seeing lots of pix after the trip.
2 of my mates just did it the other way around ie Alice Springs to Birdsville and had a great time. They were part of the expedition that was featured on 'Sunrise' a few weeks back. Their happy snaps are quite impressive.

Doug I trust you will be able to track down the lens in the early morning

[stubbsy]

I have one more sleep to my P51 flight the fisheye lens I have borrowed has gone missing in the post system and take off is at 10 am

It will be a fun morning I am not looking forward to dealing with Australia post in the morning.

I sure hope that isn't Kevin's lens

[Big Red]

really looking forward to this trip ... its gunna be awesome

[Oneputt]

Just woke up and can't get back to sleep, and it's only 4.27am. Anticipation is a wonderful thing. If I didn't have to go into the office and do a payroll I would leave now.

Steve I have already done the east to west and west to east thingy, those crossings are fairly straightfoward, which is why we are taking the south to north route. The challenge is not to get lost.

[Big Red]

its ok we have a GPS ... we will know exactly where we are ... knowing where to go from there might be a little challenging though
went to bed at two and set the alarm for 5 because i have to go to a meeting ... not much point me being there if you ask me