brisbane to the alice

Don't forget - October's fairly hot in the SD and early October you might run into/over the Desert Cycle challenge participants!!!
Hoe are you David?

I am well Ruth, how are you?
I should see you in July this year.
Hot out there right now?
Hot enough here

David O - really well although suffering from the heat also this summer. 46 outside and 28 inside with a/cs on. Dogs are feeling it especially as they are banned from my clean carpet.
Good to see you later in the year - just saw your other post about Durham Downs - John Ferguson is still there and have been trying to find the phone number for you, Maybe when you want to come the flood will have happened (yahoo) and you won't be able to get across that country. Their outstation had 2.5 inches of rain last Thursday but nothing on Durham. I'll email you if I find the number.

G'day Ruth

I reckoned it must be hot out there. My dogs are at my feet in the A/C :-) not stupid are they. We have tiles so not so bad.

Hey thanks for looking up the Durham Downs phone number, I appreciate it. It looks like DD would be a hard place to get to for a fair while in a wet year.

Saw your place on TV a couple of days ago some travel show doing a bit on the races, mentioned the 30 acres- reckon you needed it that weekend.

Anyhow look forward to seeing you all in July.

OK I am talking minimum times pretty much, and allowing a bit of time at the major points of interest- double it if you want to have a look around.

Brissie to Longreach I don't know- pretty standard highway travel times per kilometre

From there do the section of the Winton Innamincka trek that is on this site
http://www.exploroz.com/TrekNotes/OutbackQLD/Winton_to_Innamincka.asp

Longreach to Winton via that route all day to Opalton
Overnight there. If you want to do some noodling then add another day
One day to Winton allowing for Lark Quary visit.

Winton to Boulia a couple of hours

Should get to Gemtree in a faily easy day

Few hours to Alice

Alice to the Uluru via the loop through western McDonnell ranges

Need to allow for overnighters here, absolute miniumm to see some of the sites would be one overnight stop. Take more time though, it is worth it.

Double back a bit to Stuart well region then down the old Gahn route to Finke
stop at Rainbow Valley catch the sunset 1 day
stop at Chambers pillar for sunset 1 day

Finke to Lambert centre- Mt Dare easy day

Mt Dare to Birdsville via the Simpson. 4 days

Birdsville to Charleville-Brissie. unknown

So three weeks would be great, then you can really see everything.
If you have 24 days and like to add Oodnadatta, Arkaroola, Bore track, Coober Pedy etc etc then msg me as I am taking a trip thru there in June/July

Coolman,
IMHO, 3 weeks might be pushing it.
For what its worth,in winter of 2001 we did
Toowoomba-Cunnamulla-Tibooburra-Cameron Corner-Innamincka-Birdsville-Boulia-Winton-Longreach-Toowoomba in 14 days.
We were stuffed at the end and, in hindsight, wished that we had had more time.
We camped 13 nights with 4 x 2 nights and the rest were overnighters. We did a total of just under 5000 km. Every day was a rush.
Jon W

Let me correct the "see everything" bit. You could see a great deal. Yes I agree two weeks is too short but with 21 days that trip could be done fairly comfortably. If time is tight, don;t do the loop in the Western Mc, save it for another trip. Or do the loop and don't do the Simpson. Above all be flexible.

Always allow for a few days extra tho and don't be a stickler for timetables. The outback has absolutely no respect at all for timetables. And of course, the more tme you have, the more you can see