EPIC SIMPSON DESERT ADVENTURE BEGINS! (….the calm before the ’storm’)

[@chrisspies8123]

Another good ep Cam! You lads always look like your having fun, which is always a good part of the journey.

[@jebw]

The Hollywood lights at Dalhousy were spectacular.

[@WildTouring]

Love a bit of atmosphere! Especially when there’s no camp fire.

[@pantherdean84]

I've done the Simpson a couple of times and the last time I was at Dalhousie 3 years ago, you could have a fire in a self-contained fire pit with heat beads or similar

[@JenBolst]

Great episode. Love having a stickybeak at whats on the menu & the cocktails. Too funny w the air fresheners😂

[@WildTouring]

🤣 cheers Jen! Haha yeah the air fresheners were a hit!

[@Matt-0079]

Really keen for a review on your swag and stretcher set up Cam

[@Phil_McAvity]

Coming from WA I can’t believe you guys didn’t do the Anne Beadell Highway to Coober Pedy! Great video, looking forward to the next one 👍

[@WildTouring]

A couple of the boys had never been to Uluru so we catered for them. Already planning my next trip 🤣 which will be the Anne Beadell, another line across the Simpson and then push on to the cape👌

[@joegalipo9842]

Hi do you allow for tag alongs on upcoming trips?​@WildTouring

[@DenisColdham]

Great vid Cam! Keep up the good work

[@WildTouring]

Cheers mate! 🍻

[@offcampnandy7727]

Enjoying this series Cam, 👍👍👍 Cheers Andy 🍺🍺🍺

[@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

Great to watch trips like this bacause there is no way I will ever make it to places like this myself.

[@andrewtoon1954]

Awesome mate great series

[@slowboat6021]

trip of a life time there for sure

[@WildTouring]

It’s bucket list stuff! I hope to get back there a few more times 🤞

[@Mrbuckaroonie..]

Bloody great episode Cam. The elephant scene cracked me up. Just like my Pommy mates, yours are absolute Diddlydonks as well!!!! lol

[@WildTouring]

🤣 haha cheers Buck! That elephant scene was pretty accurate mate! Next time I’m in QLD- we’re catching up for beers!

[@Mrbuckaroonie..]

@@WildTouring Mate I am over West in November and going to the 4wd show.

[@1982mrbigred]

Followed ur channel for quite some time, content is always a good raw true watch,137k subsv aswell, all the effort paying off,keep it up guys!!

[@WildTouring]

🙏 thanks mate!

[@Wilbargosh]

Its the journey not just the destination. Good to see fellas getting some therapy……along the way

[@WildTouring]

Totally agree! The stories and memories that stick with me coming back from a trip are always about the people that I experienced it with. Rather than the location itself.

[@trackexplore]

That was a great video. One day I hope we can do the simmo. I flew with a group of people from Alice Springs to Dalhousy quite a few years ago, an awesome spot. The water was quite warm.

[@WildTouring]

I hope you get a chance to, it’s a great drive! I’m always planning my next crossing 🤣

[@MarcBraisby]

Loving the episode! Wondering if we could get a 'Duffy" air freshener to hang in the office at work 😂😂😂😂

[@WildTouring]

Haha I’ll have to get some more made for the tea room 🤣

[@Lee-in-oz]

That elephant had my spitting my drink out. #basted!!!

[@WildTouring]

🤣

[@paulhardie9450]

You’d have loved it in Back in the day when ya could camp on the waterfront under the trees Magic, but I get why they’ve done the camping well away from the springs now. So busy and another thumbs up on ya wood collection guys 👍 before the big drive

[@WildTouring]

I can imagine, would have been amazing! It’s funny, I had a similar conversation about Fraser Island. This trip was the first time I’ve been back since I was a child. It’s still just as stunning, but boy has it changed! Bollards, police, rangers, designated camping areas, permits, no camp fires etc…. But I actually appreciate that it is all necessary, to keep it beautiful for generations to experience.

[@Tysong.1]

I did the Simpson in 2016, but I did Birdsville to Mt dare, and went to Mongery hotel.

[@WildTouring]

I’m already planning my next crossing 🤣

[@StephenCawrse]

I'm waiting for the naked running episode guys cheers legends 😄

[@amymeeuwissen4806]

Ngl, I'd love that Leon air freshener hanging off my rearview mirror 😂

[@WildTouring]

🤣 I’ll have to save you one

[@Stephen0001]

Those of you with DPFs: don’t forget to get underneath and clear out any weeds etc caught around them. That could cause a fire during a burn. One LC300 burnt to the ground in the middle of WA about 18 months ago because of a DPF burn that caused a fire.

[@WildTouring]

Honestly they were doing well to get vegetation stuck up there, they must have been driving through a heap of it! Haven’t had anything but mud and sand stuck up around the DPF so far 👍🏼

[@Neil-clare]

Trip of a lifetime what a trip 🙌🏻 and with mates nothing better awesome! good luck guys on the adventure it’s gunna biblical! Stay safe and safe travels. ps if ya run out of fuel you can always use one of them kamikaze cocktails 😂

[@WildTouring]

Cheers mate! It was a ripper trip! Haha and you’re not wrong about the rocket fuel Gazz called a cocktail 🤣

[@kerrinniklas8816]

Great fun video!

[@WildTouring]

😊 cheers mate! 🍻

[@boba4083]

Was out there early July doing the same things. Mozzies and flies not really a problem then but the rain would have brought them out. The rain also meant a change of plans for our group as the weather threatened and most tracks were closed. Would be good to mention how your group managed calls and monitoring on UHF channel 10. A magic trip and will be going back again next June.

[@WildTouring]

Yeah I think the rain definitely had something to do with the bug situation. It also meant that the desert was alive with vegetation and wildflowers though, so I wouldn’t have had it any other way! I mention the track UHF channel in the next vid 👍🏼

[@ozbob101]

Hi Cam, just watching, the Epic Simo Desert Adventure where you've stopped at Desert Camp 1 and you asked the boys, "what they thought so far," and they both said, "it was not what they were expecting". I'd be interested to know (next time you're talking with them) what they were expecting? I had a very similar experience the first time I drove across the Nullabor, it was nothing like I thought it was going to be but It was great all the same. Great vids, watch them on Sunday morning while having my coffee and wishing we were there. Cheers.

[@bushtouringaustralia]

I run a Tiger Bay buggy whip. Never had any dramas with mine. I upgraded from the Bushranger. I believe they are a WA company.

[@WildTouring]

I’ll have to check them out. We all had different brands, and I was shocked how crappy they ALL were.

[@markdixon215]

Loving the trip but not sure If like all those bloody flys and mosquitoes. The elephant in the water cracked me up! Have a great week. Cheers 🍻

[@WildTouring]

Haha cheers Mark! Those mozzies were something else mate, could have carried us away!

[@Letsexploreoz]

What brand string lights do you use? Another great episode

[@ianweal3081]

Congrats fella, I'm now enjoying you're crossing of the Simpson west to east, yet to get right across it, set out last April year, got to a camp at Curtain Springs, the remnants of a cyclone hit, massive low dumped a shit load of rain on us and ha presto, the Simpson got shut up, bugga. The weird side of it, the temperature drops from 38° to 12° after the rain, it twas cold. Next day we spot something lying on the road, couldn't fathom what it was, so approach slowly, it's a dingo laying on the bitumen on his back, tummy sunny side up, presumably trying to get warm. Never seen anything like it, bet he was freezing, as I said 38° down to 12° overnight. What I wasn't to know, the God's were shinning on me, as we headed away down sth to spend some time elsewheres other than the Simpson I begin to have funny sensations, turns out I was suffering mini strokes, spent a week in Whyalla Hospital. Not sure I wanted to actually be in the desert with that occuring. All good again now, well good enough, haha.

[@WildTouring]

😮 glad to hear you were able to get to hospital and get yourself sorted! Sounds like it was all meant to be. I don’t know how the animals do it out there. We had temps down to -2 overnight, and in high summer it’s pushing 50. Amazing they can survive those kinds of conditions!

[@seanchristie7150]

Fantastic episode as usual, crazy how many people run highway pressures 4wding then wonder why they get bogged or damage their drive train or whinge the corrugations are bad or that there are wombat holes everywhere.

[@WildTouring]

It blows my mind! 🤯 And then they stop in the middle of the track, holding people up to air down, rather than pulling over to the side 🤪

[@seanchristie7150]

@@WildTouring just plain inconsiderate

[@logsie3918]

Did you see Elnick did the track you were looking at about a month ago I think it was that started with the water crossing under the rail bridge. What an awesome drive and destination. Do you think you will try and tackle this one again?

[@WildTouring]

Yeah I saw that! Yeah I’ll get back out there, got another couple of water holes and tracks to check out next time 👍🏼

[@stevenicsadventures]

😂😂 I want an air freshener 😂😂. Bloody Hell all that chilli you must be spraying the desert . keep up the great work 👍🏻😂

[@WildTouring]

🤣 you need your own one Stevo! Cheers mate 🍻

[@stevesmith3556]

Tastes like hangover! 😂😅😂😅 You guys are either younger than I think, or you have the liver of Superman. If I drank that cocktail with another shot and some beers, you would have to leave me behind!😂😅😂

[@WildTouring]

Haha we are neither Steve, just suckers for punishment 🤣

[@ThatAussieSheila]

Cam is the trip to dale house springs achievable solo in a stock nav?

[@WildTouring]

Yeah definitely! I’d take a stock nav across the desert too (as long as it’s mechanically sound and had decent tyres 👍🏼)

[@ThatAussieSheila]

@@WildTouring thank youuuuu

[@davidmilledge221]

Are you related to the famous Russell Wild in SA

[@WildTouring]

I don’t think so! What’s his story? Don’t think I’ve heard of him.

[@geoffclarke5901]

so was someone at 40psi?? not sure....

[@jeetts59]

I can’t believe that you haven’t crossed the Simpson before, done it solo , should not cause any trouble

[@88divinegrace]

PSA: Youlara = Uluru

[@WildTouring]

Yulara is a town. Uluṟu is the rock.

[@88divinegrace]

@@WildTouring Oh. Thanks for that. I really thought you were referring to Uluru with a mad Aussie accent. 😂

[@TheLukaszpg]

Hi Cam, a bit too much talking, not enough scenery and action for my liking, sorry. But I am only 1 of 137k subs you got, so what do I know ;-) For us it was good to do those corrugations on the mt dare side at the end of the crossing cause if something failed, it was after the crossing. Only one spotlight for loose but yeah, they are horrendous.

[@ianweal3081]

Christ, they were horrendous in August 1999, appears nothing's changed. We did that section with our trailer, mostly 1st gear & so slow but we made it thru no issues. Camped up in Alice Springs, couple days later a family arrive, their camper is so damaged, he's cursing & carrying on "They can't call that a road, caused so much damage" After about an hour or so another camper arrives on a tilt tray, axle completely gone. Same scenario. I sat back and said to myself, "it was fine if you approached it with the finesse it deserved, low & slow." I'm now enjoying you're crossing of the Simpson west to east, yet to get right across it, set out last year, got to camp at Curtain Springs, the remnants of a cyclone hit, massive low dumped a shit load of rain on us and ha presto, the Simpson got shut up, bugga. The weird side of it, the temperature drops from 38° to 12° after the rain, it twas cold. Next day we spot something lying on the road, couldn't fathom what it was, so approach slowly, it's a dingo laying on the bitumen on his back, tummy up, presumably trying to get warm. Never seen anything like it, bet he was freezing, as I said 38° down to 12° overnight.

[@tomkelly3896]

Brokeback camping😅

[@shanevillis4079]

I couldn't go with this group. I don't drink alcohol, and don't like spicy foods.

[@WildTouring]

Wouldn’t matter mate. We’ve had crew that don’t drink. I’ve done trips without drinking. It’s not necessity!

[@SomervilleMetalWorks]

Those sand flags are junk. I spent $300 on the roadsafe ones and they fell apart before they even went on the car. Would not recommend them to anyone absolute waste of money

[@WildTouring]

Can’t believe how crappy they all seem to be!

[@morepawstravels]

This is where I mention that the pushbike riders in the Simpson Desert Bike Challenge ride 130klm per day. 80 in the morning (starting at 6am) 50 in the arvo (starting at 2pm)

[@davidmilledge221]

Who ever makes and sells them sand flags must stop instantly 😮what a rip off bloody disgusting

[@WildTouring]

I was genuinely shocked how crap they all were!

[@peterdoyle3205]

It seems to me that it is an inefficient use of resources taking a vehicle each. Why not have a couple of people per vehicle which would save on costs such as fuel and maintenance.

[@WildTouring]

It’s about the journey as much as it is about the destination for most of us I guess. We all thoroughly enjoy the driving aspect