Description

Let’s face it, the Birdsville Track is just another dirt road – until the audio brings it alive, highlighting hidden gems you’d otherwise zoom past!

This tour is the insider view of Jackie Stallard who lived and loved in Birdsville for 7 years.

Travel with Jackie and discover the Birdsville Track!…

• What’s it really like to live here? Experience remote living through the locals’ eyes
• Walk in the footsteps of Australia’s first Outback explorers
• Discover the desert’s extreme and surprising ecology
• Find out how the Simpson Desert and Great Artesian Basin were formed!
• Absorb the crazy stories of this legendary outback area’s first settlers
• Imagine strings of a hundred camels, Aboriginal rainmakers, and Drovers!

And that’s not all!…

• Take time to camp
• Lounge in a hot bush spa
• Meet some of the locals you’ve heard on the audio tour!
• Finally the sand and gibber stones give up their secrets!

Countless hours of interviews and research condensed into 34 pity, astounding tracks, 158 minutes long. So amazing you’ll wish it didn’t have to end!

Contents:

• Birdsville Track Audio Tour Map (jpg and pdf). Points of interest are marked so that you know where to play each audio track.
• Notes (jpg and pdf)
• 34 audio tracks:
  1 Introduction
  2 Birdsville Track
  3 Marree
  4 Lake Harry Stn
  5 Dog Fence
  6 Clayton Stn
  7 Lake Eyre Basin
  8 Samuel Parry’s Cairn
  9 Dulkaninna’s Exclosure
  10 Dulkaninna Stn
  11 Milner’s Pile
  12 Cannuwaukaninna Bore
  13 The Missions
  14 The Cooper
  15 Kopperamanna
  16 The Mailmen
  17 Mulka Store
  18 Mulka Stn
  19 Sturts Stony Desert
  20 Mungerannie Roadhse
  21 Mungerannie Stn
  22 Cowarie Stn
  23 Kalamurina Stn
  24 The Rain Men
  25 Mirra Mitta Bore
  26 Warburton Track
  27 Inside Track
  28 Charles Sturt
  29 Koonchera
  30 Page Family Cairn
  31 Queensland/SA Border
  32 Diamantina River
  33 Birdsville
  34 Conclusion

Notes:

• There’s a northbound and southbound version of the digital downloads. The CD is northbound. If you’re travelling south, sorry! You’ll have to play the tracks in reverse order!