Detailed Itinerary

B = Breakfast
L = Lunch
D = Evening Meal
C = Camping
M = Cell Phone Coverage (usually Telstra in remote regions)
P = Payphone Available
S = Shower or swim

Day 1
The convoy departs Adelaide and heads north to Port Wakefield and through the wheatfields of the mid north to Port Augusta, where Sir Thomas Elder unloaded his camels that played such a pivotal role in the opening of the inland. We continue on past Iron Knob west to the town of Wudinna and camp north amongst granite monoliths. Explorers: Hack, Eyre.
L D C S M P

Day 2
We travel north through the rolling hills of the scenic Gawler Ranges National Park, on private station tracks through Lake Everard Station to Childara Rockhole. We visit Louis Rocks and camp near Googs Lake. Explorers : Stuart, Denton, Horrock, Coulthard
B L D C

Day 3
We travel north through the Yellabinna Regional Reserve along Googs Track, named after John “Goog” Denton, who together with his wife Jenny, built the track from 1973 to 1976, linking his property at Lone Oak northward to an abandoned track that was pushed south from Malbooma Railway siding on the Trans Australian Railway Line. The track crosses numerous sandhills through thick mallee scrub. We camp near Mt Finke and there is an optional climb to the summit. Explorers : Stuart, Giles, Denton.
B L D C

Day 4
We visit Wynbring Rocks. The first European here was Ernest Giles. There is some spectacular stone work here where construction workers on the Trans line built a catchment and sump to supply water to the steam trains. We continue on to Ooldea and camp beneath casuarinas. Explorers: Daisy Bates, Giles, Bolam
B L D C M

Day 5
We visit Ooldea soak and the railway siding made famous by Daisy Bates, who lived here with Aboriginal people for nineteen years. The soak is an Aboriginal site of great significance, and there are extensive lithic deposits in the area. We head west past the memorial that marks the point where the east and west railway lines joined before arriving at Watson on the Nullarbor, the siding where equipment was unloaded for the Maralinga nuclear testing.
B L D C M

Day 10
We visit the Emu Atomic Site, site of Totem One and Totem Two - the first nuclear tests on the Australian mainland. We are now on the Anne Beadell Highway, and we head east to Tallaringa Well. Explorer: Beadell
L B D C M

Day 11
The chance for a shower and a walk around the opal mining town of Coober Pedy before we head north along the Stuart Highway to Mount Willoughby. We camp on Copper Hills Station.
L B D C M P S

Day 12
We travel through Arckaringa and the picturesque Painted Desert to the township of Oodnadatta. There is the opportunity to shower and enjoy the ambiance of the Pink Roadhouse, visit the museum in the old Ghan railway station before we head south to camp near the Peake Overland Telegraph Repeater Station. Explorers: Ross, Stuart, Giles, Gibson, Lindsay, Hubbe
L B D C

Day 13
We travel south along the Oodnadatta Track to the ruins Strangways Overland Telegraph Repeater Station, then visit the Wabma Kardarbu National Park, then taking station tracks through Stuart Creek Station to Wobmapianna waterhole. Explorers: Stuart, Warburton,Babbage, Howitt
L B D C

Day 14
From Stuart Creek we travel to Marree, and then south into the stunning Gammon Ranges. Explorers Frome, Babbage, Stuart, Eyre, Parry, Madigan, Howitt, Dervish.
L B D C P

Day 15
Through the Gammon Ranges, we eventually arrive at Mt. Freeling, turning north onto the Strzelecki Track. We camp near the Cobbler Desert. Explorers: Babbage, Gregory, McKinlay, Hodgkinson, Sturt
L B D C

Day 16
North along the Strzelecki Track we visit Wills and Burke’s grave sites on the Cooper, and the Township of Innaminka. Explorers: Burke and Wills, Howitt, Mckinlay, Redford
L B D C P S

Day 17
We check out Cullyamurra Waterhole and the Dig Tree before travelling through the Jackson Oil and Gas fields, and a stop at the Noccundra Pub, before camping in the Narranappa Hills, our only camp in Queensland.
L B D C P

Day 18
We cross into New South Wales through the Warri Gate and continue south to Tibooburra. Check out the wild murals painted by Clifton Pugh on the walls of the Family Hotel before heading south to Pooles Grave and Depot Glen, where Captain Charles Sturt was marooned in the summer of 1845. We stop at the old mining town of Milparinka and continue south to our camp north of Broken Hill
L B D C P

Day 19
We take a look around Broken Hill before travelling east to Menindee. We visit Dost Mohammed’s Grave, and the Burke and Wills Campsite as well as the Maidens Hotel where Burke and Wills stayed. We camp further south near Mungo National Park.
L B D C

Day 20
We visit the shearing shed and the Walls of China in Mungo National Park before heading south to our camp north of Balranald on the Pringle Post Road in the Mallee.
L B D C P S

Day 21
We cross the Murray at Swan Hill and travel via Cow Swamp, Terrick, and Elmore to Melbourne arriving late afternoon.
L B P M