Gidday all,

While waiting for the roads to dry out I thought I’d put some info out there about the amazing wagon we have been following for the past five weeks.

 

Amazingly it is over 100 years old, and was saved from the scrap heap by Deb who restored and modified it in 2000, by herself, in Alice Springs.

Originally it was owned by E +? SCOBIES which was painted on a side board. It was called the Overlander. In its first life it delivered stores and mail up the Oodnadatta track, the Strzelecki track, and the Birdsville track, before Tom Cruise had the mail run, as well as all through the flinders ranges.

 

Often was pulled by camels or donkies, or horses, or a combination of all the above, whatever they could catch on the day. What a sight that would have been.

Today, in its second life, it’s retracing some of its steps of years gone by, led by a remarkable woman, Deb, who has a love and affinity with the Australian outback and her beautiful camels.

                                                  The first flat tyre it has had in 16 years.

 

Coco and Ziggy who have the honour of taking the wagon back to its roots.

 

We also consider it an honour to be part of this journey.