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 One day I watched very inspiriting documentary movie and have read a book with the same title and author: "Alone Across Australia" by Jon Muir. He crossed a whole Australia from south to north without using any outside source of help, he even didn't use a existing track. Jon was completely self sufficient, he pulled a two-wheels cart behind him, learned how to find a water, what fruits he can gathering and how to prepare them to be eatable. He was hunting on the way, mostly on rabbits. Jon started his journey three times, twice the expedition falls due to the weather and equipment conditions. Finally he made it and took him four months to complete the route (his dog had been poisoned on the way) - I admire his challenge,  he gave me an idea that everything is possible.
One day I watched very inspiriting documentary movie and have read a book with the same title and author: "Alone Across Australia" by Jon Muir. He crossed a whole Australia from south to north without using any outside source of help, he even didn't use a existing track. Jon was completely self sufficient, he pulled a two-wheels cart behind him, learned how to find a water, what fruits he can gathering and how to prepare them to be eatable. He was hunting on the way, mostly on rabbits. Jon started his journey three times, twice the expedition falls due to the weather and equipment conditions. Finally he made it and took him four months to complete the route (his dog had been poisoned on the way) - I admire his challenge,  he gave me an idea that everything is possible.
To cross the desert I need the wheel cart to pull. Research,  collection of information, materials, etc. took me two years. Fortunately, I found helpful people - Kuba Postrzygacz advised me with the wheels, Lucas Trihey had already  experience with an aluminium frame, Chris gave me a pipe  from his hang gliding, and Lynn Miller advised how to assemble all above (thanks guys). I wouldn't think that  to walk through  deserts you must have a lot technical knowledge. Theories of people who helped me, have often been contradictory and I had to make decisions without being sure whether that are right. But the key for successful trip is not so much on the construction of ideal cart, because that one does not exist, means  lightweight, durable, reliable, etc., The point is to have a skills  to repair the cart under all conditions, and even replacing some elements from what can be found on the way. Finally, the cart exceeded my financial budget, but you cannot resign from the dreams.
from his hang gliding, and Lynn Miller advised how to assemble all above (thanks guys). I wouldn't think that  to walk through  deserts you must have a lot technical knowledge. Theories of people who helped me, have often been contradictory and I had to make decisions without being sure whether that are right. But the key for successful trip is not so much on the construction of ideal cart, because that one does not exist, means  lightweight, durable, reliable, etc., The point is to have a skills  to repair the cart under all conditions, and even replacing some elements from what can be found on the way. Finally, the cart exceeded my financial budget, but you cannot resign from the dreams. 
            
            
            Finally I was ready  in September 2008  on the western edge of the Strzelecki Desert. I began  slowly, because the 150 kg of my cargo would not let me otherwise (cart, spare parts and tools - 40kg, water - 70kg, equipment and food - 40kg). I couldn't find a proper rhythm, because the wheels stacked in holes, gaps,  shrubs etc. Sand formations, pinnacels, hills  in any way reminded me the  previous desert experience. That was  cold night but I was sweating, and the irregular terrain  forced me to walk in slalom, within 3 hours I made just 6 km in a crow fly. Until second day I went with a my backup team, those three friends would help  if the cart  does not work well. When they turned back, I was convicted at the mercy of nature.   What I walked deeper in interior, started to form  characteristic for Australia  a long pattern of parallel sand dunes. Not without reason I walked at  east direction, because from this side  dunes are longer, but not as steep as from  the opposite side. Anyway I had sometimes a big problem to climb to the top.  If you think here is  monotonous landscape, you are wrong. Vegetation and surface change very often. This is good because when I stacked in bushes labyrinth I  was confident that this area will be  over soon. Spinifex (spike grass), shrubs and dry  sharp branches have been enemies for my wheels. I didn't manage without defects, but now I know that put the rubber lining inside the tire, using  motorcycle  thicker tire, and squeeze  into them the liquid sealout were necessary. The most I liked   the evenings, when after the 10-hour march came time to rest and cook a dinner. I usually  cooked dried meals that contain a lot of  nutritional value, especially  dried meat and minerals. Sometimes I baked the bread in the fire. At mornings I  add to my diet   
            
            
            
            
            
            carbohydrates
            
            
            
            and protein supplements, and during the march I ate high energy bars, sport gels, nuts, dried fruit, chocolate etc, and drank a lot  of water with  powder to compensate  electrolytes in my body.
If you think here is  monotonous landscape, you are wrong. Vegetation and surface change very often. This is good because when I stacked in bushes labyrinth I  was confident that this area will be  over soon. Spinifex (spike grass), shrubs and dry  sharp branches have been enemies for my wheels. I didn't manage without defects, but now I know that put the rubber lining inside the tire, using  motorcycle  thicker tire, and squeeze  into them the liquid sealout were necessary. The most I liked   the evenings, when after the 10-hour march came time to rest and cook a dinner. I usually  cooked dried meals that contain a lot of  nutritional value, especially  dried meat and minerals. Sometimes I baked the bread in the fire. At mornings I  add to my diet   
            
            
            
            
            
            carbohydrates
            
            
            
            and protein supplements, and during the march I ate high energy bars, sport gels, nuts, dried fruit, chocolate etc, and drank a lot  of water with  powder to compensate  electrolytes in my body. 
            
   
            
            In addition to the blister on my hill the new experience was to encounter  with wild dingo dog. It was running around me  nearly half an hour, definitely felt the food, but fortunately it wasn't aggressive. Just in case I was sleeping close to the fire. I have seen as well  curious emus, shy kangaroos, scare rabbits, proud eagles, waiting for the opportunity vultures, impassive snakes standstill lizards. Every morning on the sand I have seen  hundreds of new prints -  wonders of nature, which are adapted to living in such extremely difficult conditions. Some of the animals are able to draw water from the food, other  from the moisture air, some amphibians absorb it through the skin, again, other mammals are not sweating at all, or appear extremely dense uric acid. Here, even the plants put into the soil  various toxins  to get rid of competition, all in one goal - to survive in an environment where access to water is limited. I  also saw the  toll of drought: cows  died with stones in the mouth, the kangaroo skeleton  with stuck  leg in the fence wire from which it could not be released, hundreds of dead turtles on the bottom of the dry lake  etc.
died with stones in the mouth, the kangaroo skeleton  with stuck  leg in the fence wire from which it could not be released, hundreds of dead turtles on the bottom of the dry lake  etc. 
            
            
            I crossed Strzelecki Desert in  6 days and completed 136 km.  I was over-prepared and finished with 30 litres of water supply,  also a lot of food remain. Although I eat  well, somewhere along the way I lost  4kg of my weight. When I took off the harnesses for the last time, I was  sad that's already over. I won't come here soon, but for sure I will come back to the desert, because I'm get  an incurable disease of travel, with diagnose of   red desertlixus.



