SIMPSON DESERT - Heading To The Races - Roothy

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This film was originally shot for video back in 2005. At that stage I was employed more as a tour guide and cook than a presenter because then editor of 4WD Pat Callinan did most of the presenting himself. Even back then Pat was talking about TV, he always looked the part and after leaving us he went on to a successful career with his day time TV show. All I had to offer was the old truck and a heap of motorcycle tour guiding experience.

Funny thing was I'd done the Simmo maybe thirty times before this but all except a couple had been on trail bikes. My old man took us across there in a Land Rover when we were kids living in the Flinders. Actually, ‘in’s’ not the right word, ‘on’s’ probably more appropriate seeing as, in those pre slip-slop-slap days, my brothers and I spent most of the trip on the tray back nestled up with the swags and the drums.


That was 1968 and while us kids didn’t realise it at the time – and there’s no way mum knew about it I’d reckon - it was only six or seven years after the very first motorised crossing made by Reg Sprigg, a geologist contracted to survey the Simpson area. Reg had driven along the Territory-South Australian border using aircraft to drop fuel and supplies. Up until then only a few white people had nibbled at the edge of this great mass of sandhills where the Territory, South Australian and Queensland borders meet. Even the local Aborigines always stuck to the southern part where they knew of a few scattered waterholes and soaks.
So the Simpson Desert was pretty much one of the last uncharted and truly isolated areas in Australia and probably the world. Not much has changed since then, apart from a scattering of the usual signpost technology that various government departments somehow figure justifies the money they charge for permits, and that’s why the Simmo will always be a favourite amongst serious four wheel drivers. This is a place where you can really get away from it all!

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