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White rock is at the entrance to a working quarry, they definitely take a dim view to trespassers, adjacent and south of white rock is now National Park. Gandangarra Local Aboriginal Land Council own some 750 Ha, this is the area that is slated for development. Past this you run into Council...

Land Rover Defender, 1998 Good Points Very capable straight off the shelf, easy to do your own mods Very fuel efficient Bad Points Not the most powerful 4WD Narrow rear door What mods have you done? ARB Bullbar Tow bar Load barrier Twine Shower F & R Lockers Warn...

If you go file|Change image file name, path and drive you can change a whole folder full of map/images at the same time. Bushie

Thought I'd put up a few details about fuel used etc Just a quick capture out of another document, shame fuel prices didn't start dropping a few weeks earlier :( :( Bushie

Edjits Madigan Line Tour 2008 - Day 39 & 40 [11th/12th Aug] After Louth we were resigned to the fact that the trip was over and we just had to make our way home, we did this in two hops first to Dubbo for a night in a motel and a meal. Then heading from Dubbo via Goolma and Mudgee to home where...

Edjits Madigan Line Tour 2008 - Days 34/38 [6th - 10th AUG] We were heading to Louth on the Wednesday to secure a good camping spot hopefully in the NE corner of the racecourse grounds, alas it was not to be when we arrived the spot was taken. This were the 50th running of the races and they...

Edjits Madigan Line Tour 2008 - Day 33 [5th AUG] Heading off from Curawinya after paying the park camping fees we visited the shearing sheds, had a look around at the old steam engines as well as the Bilby project before heading down the road to Hungerford pub for lunch...

Edjits Madigan Line Tour 2008 - Day 31/32 [3rd/4th AUG] After heading back to the pub for fuel, and having to wait for the bowsers to open we headed for a quick look around at the cemetery, which is 1km out of town. Not having a fuel gauge I ran out of fuel as we turned off the road into...

Edjits Madigan Line Tour 2008 - Day 30 [2nd AUG] Once we left Marianna waterhole we headed towards Arrabury, from here it was through the Cook oil fields, through the Barrolka Oils fields, before turning south towards Durham Downs, across the Cooper Creek floodplain and onto Bundeena...

Edjits Madigan Line Tour 2008 - Day 29 [1st AUG] With camp packed up some went to refuel and to post off a postcard or two before we headed out of town, a wind change came through just as we were packing up and its strength was building we had the feeling it was going to be a bit different to...

Edjits Madigan Line Tour 2008 - Day 27/27 [30th/31st JUL] We departed Annandale and headed for Birdsville, we had been asked by David Brook to head down Eyre Creek and out onto the QAA line and then into Birdsville via big red rather than past Adria Downs homestead. A short detour off this...

Edjits Madigan Line Tour 2008 - Day 26 [29th JUL] When we departed Kuddaree after some morning photos, breakfast or Bacon, eggs and baked beans, we were only intending to go as far as Dickerie waterhole and spend the night there. The track to camp 21 took us past the old...

Edjits Madigan Line Tour 2008 - Day 25 [28th JUL] We started the morning by trying to find any evidence of the well at Mudloo but to no avail. From here east the country started changing with much more timber (Gidgee) to be found in the swales, this is obviously one of the reasons it...

Edjits Madigan Line Tour 2008 - Day 24 [27th JUL] Today was to see us reach camp 16 from here most people head down to beachcomber oil well and then along the K1 line to poeppel corner, we however were going to continue on along the Madigan Line and cross into Queensland and the Simpson Desert...