Archives: 2008 March

I had another go at getting south from Chimney Hole Dam and Crozier Creek to Andamooka Waterhole. Got about half way, maybe better than halfway.
Found Stuart’s large dry swamp with reeds. Not the one I’ve been to before. By far the largest dry swamp I’ve seem, maybe one and a half km wide and three [...]

The other day I visited two of John McDouall Stuart’s camps, south of Andamooka Homestead; the camp he called Sand Hill, close to the present day site of Hardie’s Dam and the next campsite which he called Permanent Water.

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The present day Todd Well at the bottom of the ariel photo with the start [...]

So just where did John Mcdouall Stuart camp on the night of Tuesday, 22nd June, 1858, the spot he called Permanent Water Creek?

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Well, I reckon I was there yesterday. There are several dry waterholes in the vicinity of a big bend in Crozier Creek, in a general area that fits with the description [...]

Well, I’ll be heading on another outback trip in the footsteps of the great explorer, John McDouall Stuart, in a few days.

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Swinden’s Crossing at the southern tip of Lake Torrens. This is where I’ll pick up Stuart’s track and follow his next ten days travel and exploration.

The plan is to pick up Stuart’s [...]