A KIWI IN OUTBACK AUSTRALIA PART 2 GOOGS TRACK AND THE SIMPSON DESERT

After returning home for a couple of months, I wanted to get in another trip to Australia before the year end.

This time it would be a solo trip, before it became too hot, as I had decided that if I was going to bring the Land Rover back to New Zealand, I would have to do early the next year before it become an illegal import (the rules around bringing 4WDs into New Zealand were changing and my vehicle no longer qualified after mid 2016).

I flew to Melbourne, then bussed up to Bendigo, to collect the Land Rover from where it was stored (same place as last time). This was mid October 2015.

My intention for the first part of the trip was to do Googs Track (often referred to as the ‘Mini Simpson’).

First port of call

Departing Bendigo, I made my way across to Robe, South Australia. This is a fishing port, and quite a lot of lobster are landed there and exported live to China. I’d been there several years ago and was keen to go back. As a past fisherman and current manager of