We are going on this trip with a group of fellow members of MySwag.org, the offroad campertrailer forum. Myswag is a fantastic online community of like minded people from all over Australia (and the rest of the world), bought together by their love of the outdoors; camping, 4WDing and of course, camper trailers.
Member trips and get togethers are often being organised, and around 12 months ago the idea of a trip to Central Australia was put up. For various reasons this particular trip didn't go ahead, but one member thought they would salvage what was a popular idea, and the result is this trip!
We will be joined by 12 other MySwag members and their families, coming from all over Australia, and meeting in Alice Springs. We will then spend 2 weeks touring the area, seeing such iconic Central Australian locations as Uluru, Kata-Tjuta, Kings Canyon, Palm Valley, Chambers Pillar and many more.
We will be taking a week to get to Alice Springs, heading north from Melbourne via Renmark and Leigh Creek, then spend 4 days on the Oodnadatta Track, camping at Coward Springs and Algebuckina. Being so close to Lake Eyre, we've planned a day trip into Halligan Bay to visit the famous lake!
It will then be a night at Marla, and then the last leg up the Stuart Hwy to meet up with the group in Alice Springs.
After 2 weeks of touring the area, we will start heading home via Coober Pedy for 2 nights, where we are staying in an underground motel! Then on to Port Augusta for a night, Broken Hill (1 or 2 nights), then Gol Gol where we will spend our last night away with Di's cousin and his family. And then home, after 4 weeks and over 7000km's, and still only seeing just a small part of this magnificent country!
Interesting fact for the day: 70% of the Australian mainland is classified as semi-arid, arid or desert, making it the driest inhabited continent on Earth. There are 10 deserts in Australia, with only 3% of the population living in them.
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