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Big Red Bash (12 - 26 July 2019)

4,838 km driven across 3 states over 16 days!   This was our first trip to the Big Red Bash and we will be back for sure!  We met up with our mate Stewy in Birdsville and traveled to the bash and Boulia with him and we also ran into a few other friends whilst we were at these events. 

The main purpose of the trip was to visit The Big Red Bash, the worlds most remote music festival … and what an awesome, fun filled couple of days that was! They say once you visit you’ll go back again and that’s so true, we are all hooked! The bands, the people, the volunteers, the atmosphere … it was all awesome. Probably by far the best run event we have ever been to.

Although the bash was our main reason for travel, we wanted to make a mini holiday out of it too. We’ve been to Birdsville before and also to most places we visited, but it was still great. We stopped in at Cameron Corner again (where the borders of NSW/SA/QLD meet) and also stopped off at Haddon Corner for the first time (where the borders of QLD/SA meet).  We got our history on visiting some of the sites connected to Burke & Wills …. Burkes grave and Dig Tree to name a couple and we finally visited the Birdsville Hotel and went inside to have a beer (we’d previously been to Birdsville but didn’t go to the pub, who does that!).

We finally went to a camel racing meet, and not just any old camel racing, the ‘Melbounre Cup of Camel Racing’!  We spent 3 days camping at the race course and watching the Boulia Camel Races.  We went on a sunset dinner river cruise on the Thompson River in Longreach, attended an Outback Show at the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame, we saw the ‘big bogan’ in Nyngan and the ‘big billy’ in Trangie. We touched a dinosaur bone fossil at Winton and visited the site of the first Qantas plane crash in Tambo. We dropped into little country towns to support and show the love and bought heaps of souvenirs we probably don’t need!

​Click here and search for BRB2019 under the categories section to read our blog posts.

Travel to the Bash

Birdsville & The Big Red Bash

Boulia Camel Races

Travel home from the bash

  
...... Making memories one track at a time
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      • Fraser Island (21 Dec 2019 - 3 Jan 2020)
      • Big Red Bash (12 -26 July 2019)
      • Coffin Bay & Flinders Ranges (26 Dec 2018 - 4 Jan 2019)
      • Cape York (11 July 2018 - 4 August 2018)
      • Urunga (26 Dec 2017 - 2 Jan 2018)
      • Fraser Island (30 Sept - 6 Oct 2017)
      • Moreton Island (24-27 April 2017)
      • Fraser Island (14-22 April 2017)
      • Urunga (December 2016 - January 2017)
      • Western Australia (July/August 2016) >
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      • Cameron Corner - New Years Eve 2014 >
        • Map
        • Blog - Cameron Corner NYE 2014
      • Fraser Island (April 2015)
      • Fraser Island (April 2014)
      • Cape York & Northern Territory Honeymoon (August - October 2013) >
        • Blog - Cape York & Beyond
        • Map
        • Itinerary
        • Photos
      • Fraser Island (April 2012)
      • Fraser Island (April 2011)
      • Burke & Wills 150th Anniversary (Aug 2010)
      • Cairns - Cooktown (Jan 2006)
    • Short Holidays >
      • Ulladulla Bushfire Relief (20-22 March 2020)
      • Percy's Place (26.01.18-28.01.18)
      • Platypus Flat, Nymboi-Binderay National Park (15/16.11.14)
      • Snow Trip (2007)
    • Day Trips >
      • Southern Highlands (19.07.2020)
      • Glen Davis (05.07.2020)
      • Scheyville National Park (28.06.2020)
      • Bowral (13.06.2020)
      • Lithgow Snow Day (10.08.19)
      • Lithgow & Surrounds (29.02.2020)
    • 4WD Days >
      • Morisset (20.06.20)
      • Watagans (31.05.20)
      • Stockton Beach (14.03.20)
      • Lithgow with Liam (27.10.19)
      • Jellore State Forest with liam (29.09.19)
      • Jellore State Forest (21.09.19)
      • GDT Day (18.08.19)
      • Morisset (15.06.19)
      • Lithgow (10.02.19)
      • Ward 21, Morisset (10.11.18)
      • Ward 21, Morisset Hospital & Watagan Plane Wreck (01.04.18)
      • Lithgow (09.09.2017)
      • Stockton Beach & Watagans (08.07.2017 - 09.07.2017))
      • Stockton Beach (02.04.2016)
      • Watagans (28.12.2015)
      • Lithgow (01.11.2015)
      • Lithgow (19.07.2015)
      • Barrington Tops (16-17.05.2015)
      • Lithgow (25.01.2015)
      • Ourimbah State Forest (28.09.14)
      • Stockton Beach (various)
      • Wheeny Creek, Colo (01.06.14)
      • South Coast Trip (Jan 2012)
      • Toronto Day Trip (Nov 2008)
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