DESERT AND OUTBACK EXPEDITIONS
We specialise in organising trips for walkers, birdwatchers and slow vehicle trips to explore rarely visited areas.
SERVICES
- Expedition planning and advice.
- Vehicle support for travellers.
- Tag Along Trips in your own 4WD.
- Support and back up for walking groups.
- Base camp services.
- All staff are first aid qualified.
- On board computer/GPS mapping.
- Safety and communications: Satellite phone, HF radio, Radtel, VKS737, satellite distress beacon (PLB), UHF radio, first aid.
- Expedition back up - if you want a reliable person back in civilisation for your own trip. Includes trip monitoring and coordinating help or back up for mechanical, health or other issues.
DESERT EXPERIENCE
We have travelled extensively in Australia's arid areas. Lucas and his team have driven through many deserts including off-track cross country driving to reach the start and finish of some of his desert walks. We have crossed the Simpson a number of times in vehicles including a summer trip and trips in the floods of 2010 where we had to winch across Eyre Creek. We have driven all the major routes including the Rig Road, WAA, French Line, QAA, Colson and K1.
We have also driven extensively off-track in the Simpson and has explored different sections of Sturts Stony Desert, the Strzlecki Desert, the Gibson Desert, parts of the Gunbarrel in summer, Lake Eyre is summer and the APY lands south of Uluru. We have supported film and TV productions in the desert areas including Mt Connor, the Western MacDonnell Ranges and the Simpson Desert.
Lucas is the first person to have walked across the Simpson Desert on foot, through the centre and unsupported. He pulled a cart weighing 160kg with all his own water, food and supplies for the 400km/17 day trip.
PAST EXPEDITIONS
- Sturts Stony Desert: 3-day group walking trip.
- Strzlecki Desert: 5-day group walking trip in the Lake Goyder/Coongi Lakes region.
- Simpson Desert: Solo, unsupported 17-day, 400km west-to-east walking crossing (the first ever through the centre) carrying all his own water and supplies in a special desert cart.
- Simpson Desert: Set up and support of a five-person, 280km crossing on foot from East Bore (north of Old Andado) to Poeppel Corner. Set up and support 10 walkers for a 120km trip from Poeppel Corner to Big Red. Support a 15-day multiple marathon runners group from the Lambert Centre (near Finke, NT) to Birdsville Qld.
- Western MacDonnell Ranges: Numerous walks including remote Mt Zeil (the highest mountain in NT) and a group trip to climb challenging Mt Giles to the east of Ormiston Pound.
- Pitjanjara Land and Simpson Desert: vehicle based with day and overnight walks.
- Lake Goyder and Lake Marroocoolcannie in the Strzlecki: Overnight walking and vehicle exploration in this region north of Coongie Lakes.
QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED
Our trip leaders and guides are qualified to lead vehicle and walking trips in remote areas and they have qualifications in emergency response, remote first aid, communications, search techniques, advanced navigation, four wheel driving and risk management.
MORE PHOTOS
Simpson solo walk, 400km in 17 days
The moon sets at dawn over Lake Peera Peera Poolanna at a remote walker's camp 10km from the nearest 4WD track.
Camp at Annandale Waterhole in the eastern Simpson after a good year.
The sandy wastes of the Simpson Desert south of the Rig Road.
Walkers nearing their overnight camp east of Coongie in northern SA.
Walkers pulling desert carts with all their supplies on a 120km walk from Poeppel Corner to Big Red (Simpson Desert).
Aboriginal artefacts on a sand dune.
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