How To Plan An Outback Trip Without Losing Your Mind
The first mistake people make when planning a major outback trip is trying to fit too much into too little time. Australia looks manageable on a map until you start…
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Outback Roads Are Closing Fast: What’s Shut & What’s Next
If you’ve been watching the inland radar lately, you’ll know this isn’t just a passing storm. This is basin-wide rain feeding some of Australia’s biggest inland river systems. And when…
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Stranded in the Simpson: Rain Turns Desert Tracks into Mud Traps
You can prep all you want for a Simpson Desert crossing, but when 350mm of rain dumps on the track in just three days, you’re not driving anywhere. A South Australian…
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Simpson with a Trailer: Would I do it again?
If you’re considering crossing the Simpson Desert with a trailer, you might want to read this first…! It might save you a lot of trouble. So, you’re wanting to cross…
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Driving a Porsche across the Simmo’
Australia isn’t exactly known for being the most sane country in the world. Let’s face it, we’re all a little bonkers. We’re known worldwide for being wild men and women;…
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Video: Watch the first crossing of the Simpson Desert by Cecil Madigan.
Thanks to the State Library of South Australia you can now see actual footage of Cecil Madigan’s 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition. Once considered one of the more remote journeys you…
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Busted and Broken near Birdsville
Pat recently caught up with Sam Barnes who runs the Birdsville Roadhouse and offered some sage advice around tourers heading across the Simpson and getting stuck or breaking their 4X4s.…
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2018 Just 4 Kids Motor Trail TJM Simpson Desert Trek
Just 4 Kids Motor Trail are gearing up for their 2018 TJM Simpson Desert Trek set to kick off on May 25th, and tickets are selling up quick! The trek…
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Solar Suzukis Cross the Simmo
Yep, really. Dragging two solar-powered Suzuki Sierras across the Simpson Desert for a Guinness World Record, and some pretty hefty bragging rights. That’s what Alan Johnson from Piranha Off-Road Products,…
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The Hay River Track, Simpson Desert
The Simpson Desert is perhaps the last place on Earth that you would associate with the word ‘river’. Yet there it is … at the northern end lays the Hay…
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Madigan Line Simpson Desert video, Part II
The Madigan Line is a lesser-known, very challenging and incredibly rewarding 4X4 adventure, which travels across the northern half of the Simpson Desert. It follows the path of Cecil Madigan’s…
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Issue 021, The Simpson Desert Edition: With free Map of Australia
Issue 021 of Pat Callinan’s 4X4 Adventures has just been approved, and is currently at Offset Alpine in Sydney, getting turned into that perfectly-bound, glossy magazine that we all love.…
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Big News from the Big Red Bash
Well it’s official…the world’s most remote music festival has now sold out! Over 6000 people will travel a combined 20 million kilometres to get out to Big Red near Birdsville in the Simpson…
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Video: 2016 Birdsville Big Red Bash
Tickets are selling out fast for the 2016 Birdsville Big Red Bash, which is brought to you by the team at Pat Callinan’s 4X4 Adventures. Every Big Red Bash ticket…
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Issue 017 – Coastal Bliss – Travel Stories
The next issue of Pat Callinan’s 4X4 Adventures magazine brings you more inspiring and information-packed travel, from right across Australia. With the Simpson Desert, Western Australia’s Bremer Bay, Outback and…
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Destination Guide: Big Red
Just out of Birdsville on the eastern edge of the Simpson Desert is a sand dune. Now there’s 1100 dunes that you’ll have to negotiate when crossing the desert, but…
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Readers Trip Report: Inspiring Outback
Easter 2012 gave us the opportunity to head west from Brisbane to Birdsville. We saw flooded rivers, hills covered in green and on arrival at big red, a massive lake teeming with bird life. This was our trip to the desert!
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