Simpson Desert 26th september
It is difficult to give news froma a desert...........jokes a part Carla's crossing is proceeding well without
any big trouble a part the blisters under her feet. Here at the Focus Support Team's camp we all hope
that when she will get to the sand dunes the softer terrain will solve this problem. The FST today has made 70 km arriving into the real
desert where the landscape is not the classic one: the sand dunes are spotted with spinifex and other green bushes. But I never talked about our local guide Mr Don Rowlands and I thing this chapter of the diary has to be dedicated to him. Don is 55 years old and has aboriginal origin. For twenty
long years he worked in the farm of his father as a cow boy going back
and forth several times a year from Birdsille to Maree ( more or less 500 Km in the middle of no where).
After a short while as a truck driver he attended the exam to became a ranger in Birdsville and won it. Why he changed his life style of coures because as he likes to say: "it is better to ride an air conditioned horse". From ten years is doing this job trying to avoid tourist to get in trouble into the desert and
trying to preserve one of the most wild area in Australia. This is more or less Don and the more we know him the more we appreciate his easy way of life and with that with his
"no prob'm mate" let the expedition goes smootly.
As usual stay tuned until the next news.........Oscar and Daniel