The Birdsville Development Road passes through Sturt’s Stony Desert. The desert comprises large areas of gibber plains. Gibber comes from an Aboriginal word for stone. Gibbers are formed where exposed…

After leaving Farina we had a quick stop at Marree to top up with fuel and then dropped the tyre pressures on the car and van before starting ‘the track’.…

After reading ‘Birdsville’ by Evan McHugh and ‘Mailman of the Birdsville Track’ by Kristin Weidenbach I’d always wanted to visit Birdsville and travel ‘the track’. So Judie and I decided…