B-LINE FOR BIRDSVILLE

This page is under construction. There are design changes that should speed up the delivery of text and images. Please note the email address for the editor will change during the period of construction as well. Urgent enquirers are encouraged to call me on my mobile (0415 260 221) until the updates are completed.

The URL address also may change during this time although the site will be painlessly linked when that happens. Your patronage and consideration over the years is valued and I hope you continue browsing through my stories about the opening up of the Simpson Desert to every-day travellers. Contributions are welcomed. Please expect that it will take some more time for me to place and upload the recent material kindly provided by Simpson Desert old hands and admirers.

Click on the photo of Reg Sprigg to enlarge it. Reg and his family were the first to drive across the Simpson Desert in 1962 (rs1248.jpg).

REG SPRIGG
FIRST DRIVER
IN THE DESERT

DESERT DIGEST

Cashbook and Claypan
Share in the tribulations of the admin manager as he balances the books from his Office-in-a-Blitz

Birdsville or Bust
Learn how French know-how and Australian muscle carved the French Line through the Simpson

East From Oodna
Marvel at the initiative of the early pathfinders who solved the mysteries of the Red Centre

Alive in the Dead Heart
Recollections from the crew who first burst the road through Australia's One True Desert

B-line for Birdsville
Join the CGG veterans on their return journeys to the French Line. Take their tip and travel with experts

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Planning the Next Anniversary Crossing

Here Comes 50 Years Before You Know It

Didn't I Say It Was Under Construction

A group of enthusiastic 4WDrivers signed up with Great Divide Tours to re-live the magic of the Simpson Desert while I recounted my experiences of the construction of the French Line in 1963, a feat performed by CGG's seismic Party S6507 and one which ultimately opened up the world's largest parallel sand dune desert to today's modern travellers, recreational and academic alike.

There is no ready answer possible regarding a repeat performance: simply, the players leave the scene, usually exit stage left. I don't believe it is my time yet so I am ready to go again. Tell me when.

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Share in the tribulations of the admin manager as he balances the books from his Office-in-a-Blitz. Click on the caption to go directly to the story. Learn how French know-how and Australian muscle carved the French Line through the Simpson. Click on the caption to go directly to the story. Marvel at the initiative of the early pathfinders who solved the mysteries of the Red Centre. Click on the caption to go directly to the story. Recollections from the crew who first burst the road through Australia's One True Desert. Click on the caption to go directly to the story. Join the CGG veterans on their return journeys to the French Line. Take their tip and travel with experts. Under Construction. Only the super-inquisitive should click the caption.

Cashbook and
Claypan Birdsville
or Bust East from
Oodna Alive in the
Dead Heart B-Line for
Birdsville

GONE TO MOTHBALLS .....	Thommo's Desert Report - Part A	The BeeGees Page
	Thommo's Desert Report - Part B	The Kid From Towra Point
	Bulldozing a Desert	Trans National Causeway
	Signwriter for the Simpson	The Long Haul
	Simpson Desert Birdlife	French Line Circa 1979

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