ACROSS THE MADIGAN LINE
Our trip across the Simpson Desert following in the wake of the 1939 Cecil Madigan expedition started in Birdsville. We quickly found our way out to ‘Big Red’, the famous dune on the eastern edge of the desert.
We pushed west along the well-travelled QAA Line, then after crossing dunes for 18km we swung north on a lesser used track that parallels the Eyre Creek.
We then came to a marker indicating Madigan’s Camp 22, the first of many during our foray across the desert. These small signs on a yellow
