Thursday 9 June 2016

Leaving Birdsville

Today’s the day that Graeme, Brendon and Matt left Birdsville to cross the Simpson. First camp tonight was at Eyre Creek. No idea how many kilometres that was but it is slow going out there with rocky flats and sandy dunes to cross – average top speed and to be comfortable was around 30-50 km/hr other times we’ve been so I assume they’d be about the same.  





Yesterday/today was spent in Birdsville packing, a last trip to the bakery for a pie and of course the pub.


All a little bit exciting but also scary and daunting. Sounds like a healthy balance though given what he’s about to embark on. He’s a little snuffly with blocked nose but it’s also been quite windy so he’s thinking it might be more hayfever than anything.


Stories and photos will slow right down from now until Brendon and Matt get back into range and I’m hoping they’ll have some to share. Graeme will only have the satellite phone to call/text from so it’ll only be the basics. He’s hoping to actually start the walk back around Sunday/Monday but it’ll just depend on how they go getting across. 

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