The Birdsville Track is a not well travelled route between Maree in SA and Birdsville in Queensland.
The track is 700kms of dirt and gravel and skirts 3 different deserts. It was carved by a delivery driver called Tom Kruse. He was a mailman that delivered to all of the stations along the route. An average delivery run would take 2 weeks in his 2wd Bedford van, but if the weather was bad it could take up to 6 weeks!
The mail is now delivered by plane and the road is so much better that the deliveries come in every 2 weeks on a road train.
Even though the landscape is so empty it is still an amazing site, the view and clouds just go on forever.
(This is one of my favourite parts of Australia...)
Love this shot, great feeling of the wide open outback.
ReplyDeleteThanks Hank - This is one of my favourites too.
ReplyDeleteIt was so flat that if you drove 100 metres off the road I don't think you would have been able to see it if you looked back!
It looks as if three worlds are merging.Road,sky and the sideways.Cool.
ReplyDeleteI would love to write a poetry on this.
ReplyDeleteI would be interested to read it! :-)
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