Thursday 30th July 2020

An easy morning refuel, water and resupply and catch up on e-mails etc.

Then a afternoon drive to the Betoota Pub.

It’s just un-Australian not to stop here and ‘Hav' a Beer at Betoota'

The Pub had only been open 2 weeks and the owner enjoying a financially good time with support of passing travellers.

A bottle of red - “Sorry sold out”, Ok white, “Sorry sold out”.

His stock of souvenir shirts was also depleted. 

Those on the shelf either already opened or saved for more desperate travellers !

Well done..

Great to see success, and the revival of this Australian icon.

Friday 31st July 2020

Today a 450Km Bull Dust and corrugations run, which GX handled easily.

I set the tyres were at 46psi cold and at 70-80KPH the corrugations were just a vibration hum in the background.

The Bull Dust holes were significant and rough. Definitely needed care.

Diamantina Lakes rangers office and ‘museum'

Camp was at Hunters Gorge Campground.

Pelicans were having a feed and were some other campers were catching yellow belly.

Saturday 1st August 2020

We drove the 100km loop around the National Park - Lots of Bull Dust.

Still happy nothing comes inside in module nor the storage boxes.

At the far western end of the park some old stone building structures that according to minimal information are of an unknown origin.

Vast plains of Mitchell Grass

Before tracking home, our final camp was at the Broadwater Waterhole in the Lochern National Park. 

Must come back here one day and throw in a Yabby Pot !

What is next?

We were to ship to Japan, Sth Korea and Russia, Mongolia but COVID-19 blew that plan.

So in April 2021 west it will be foer 3-4 months. Across the Simpson by one of the lesser tracks, the Anne Beadell, The tracks along the Great Australian Bight, S.W. WA and up the West coast.