$19.99
Description
Let’s face it, the Birdsville Track is just another dirt road – until the Birdsville Track Audio Tour 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 45 pithy, astounding tracks, complete with sound effects, 186 minutes long. You’ll wish it didn’t have to end!
Note that the Birdsville Track Audio Tour digital downloads contain 11 bonus tracks – 28 minutes more than the double CD!
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)
- Audio tracks:
- Introduction
- Birdsville Track
- Birdsville
- Diamantina River
- Roseberth Station
- Birdsville Developmental Rd
- Queensland/SA Border
- Pandie Pandie Station
- Page Family Cairn
- Blue Ute
- Burke and Wills
- Koonchera
- Walker’s Crossing
- Charles Sturt
- Inside Track
- Clifton Hills Station
- Warburton Track
- Mount Gason Wattle Project
- Mount Gason
- Mirra Mitta Bore
- The Rain Men
- Mungerannie Gap
- Kalamurina Stn
- Cowarie Stn
- Mungerannie Stn
- Mungerannie Roadhse
- Sturts Stony Desert
- Mulka Stn
- Mulka Store
- The Mailmen
- Kopperamanna
- The Cooper
- The Missions
- Etadunna Station
- Cannuwaukaninna Bore
- Milner’s Pile
- Dulkaninna Stn
- Dulkaninna’s Exclosure
- Samuel Parry’s Cairn
- Lake Eyre Basin
- Clayton Stn
- Dog Fence
- Lake Harry Stn
- Marree
- Conclusion