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Tim_NZ



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A few pics from my Simpson Desert Trip (Australia)
Well, in August I went for a bit of a drive, roughly 8000k's, in a round trip from Perth, across the Simpson Desert, and back. (Puma was faultless by the way Smile ).

Anyway, here goes.....

Picture taken on the longest straight in Aust:


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Sunrise at the Caravan park in Peterborough (SA):


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Everyone getting ready to set off:


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Mine site we stopped at on the way, (really big hole in the ground):


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Tom Kruse's Truck in Marree:


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Old boiler in Marree:


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Abandoned train in Marree:


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Sunset across the plains, (Marree):


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Marree township:


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Sunset Marree:


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Sunrise Marree:


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Tim_NZ



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Dalhousie Springs:


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Pink Road House, Oodnadatta:


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Moon-rise in Dalhousie:


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Little bird sitting on the roof of the 110:


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Getting into the desert Smile


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Tim_NZ



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Desert flowers:


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Crusier bum prints in the sand Smile


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Preping food:


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Sunset in the desert:


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Night sky over the desert, (not the best astro-photogrophy):


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Sitting round the camp fire, (one of my favourite pics of the trip):


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Poeppel Corner:


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Toymota looks like it's **** itself Smile :


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Tim_NZ



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Frank just couldn't help himself!


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On top of Big Red:


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Toymota trying to get to the top of Big Red :angel:


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Sunset in Birdsville:


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SA Plains:


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Flowering Gum Trees:


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Cameron Corner:


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Sunset heading back into Peterborough:


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Storm coming in:


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Wilmington toy Museum:


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Sunset at the Pier in Ceduna:


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Cheers,

Tim

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Tim_NZ



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Cheers,

Tim
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WOW...Fab pics ! Bow down
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great pictures Mate DEFENDER 90 TDCI XS,

I hope everyone is well and your land rovers make you happy
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road house sign photo is fantastic
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Wowsers. Not many clouds out there then. Jealous.
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Remind me again why I came back to the UK... Big Cry
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Great shots Tim, how beautiful the desert is this time of the year, particularly after all the rain we had out there...

O and when I mean rain, I mean about 2 pints of rain for the year... (for the Mother Landers)

Hope the Puma showed up the toyo's, what am I saying off course it did!!!
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absolutely brilliant pictures tim.

i travelled along the oodnadatta truck through the moon plains and the painted desert back in 1995; but we came up from adelaide, heading for uluru, so we carried on to william creek and not birdsville.
i've got a video of tom Kruze doing his weekly postal trip up the birdsville track in the 1950's - more impressive than camel trophy.


cheers for bringing back happy memories
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Tim_NZ



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Thanks for the comments everyone!

LR09WA wrote:
Great shots Tim, how beautiful the desert is this time of the year, particularly after all the rain we had out there...

O and when I mean rain, I mean about 2 pints of rain for the year... (for the Mother Landers)

Hope the Puma showed up the toyo's, what am I saying off course it did!!!


There's been a bit of rain over there, we couldn't see the desert for the scrub! But it was beautiful with the wildflowers.

The Puma did well against the Toyos, (there were 2 LC105 Saharah's, a 75 series tray back, a 79 series tray back, and a Samyonnonoyong..... Muso).

There was a fair bit of ribbing about LR reliability from the 79 Series owner. I did ask him why he had old cart style springs in the back of his wagon, to which he assured me that they were as good as coils..... I found this strange as after the first day in the rough stuff he asked me to carry the remainder of his unbroken bottles of wine and undamaged food.

I did have to comment when the tray back cruisers had to stop to put their hubs in; "Oh how quaint, thats just like my 1974 Series 3".

Out of all the vehicles the Puma was the first and only vehicle to climb "Big Red" (Really big sand dune if you've not heard of it) on its first attempt.


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farmer giles wrote:
absolutely brilliant pictures tim.

i travelled along the oodnadatta truck through the moon plains and the painted desert back in 1995; but we came up from adelaide, heading for uluru, so we carried on to william creek and not birdsville.
i've got a video of tom Kruze doing his weekly postal trip up the birdsville track in the 1950's - more impressive than camel trophy.


cheers for bringing back happy memories


Tom Kruse is certainly a legend in Central Australia, the Birdsville track wasn't too bad as it had been graded recently, but the Oodnadatta track was shocking.
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