Where are you going ?
The 'Burke & Wills Walk 2008' will follow the faded footsteps of the Burke & Wills Expedition. Dave Phoenix will leave Melbourne in Victoria on the south coast and cross Australia to the Gulf of Carpentaria near Karumba in Queensland, a distance of over 3,000 kilometres.

Dave will leave Royal Park, Melbourne on 1st August 2008, travel through Victoria to Swan Hill and enter New South Wales. He plans to be in Menindee early in September, cross into Queensland and reach Cooper Creek by mid-October, cross Sturt's Stony Desert and pass through Birdsville and Boulia in November, cross the Selwyn Ranges and the plains of the Gulf Savannah in December and reach the north coast in early January 2009.

The track of the expedition has intrigued historians for nearly 150 years and is still the source of great debate even today. No one really knows exactly where Burke and Wills went. The records are fragmented, inaccurate and in some cases missing altogether.

However despite the uncertainty it is possible to establish the expedition's track to a reasonably high degree of certainty using the existing historical records in combination with the physical landscape and this will be the basis for the route of the 'Burke Wills Walk 2008'. The walk will follow the original track as faithfully as possible.

'I mean to cross this country, Mr Landells. I mean to be the first white man to do it, and I mean to walk every step of the way.'
Jack Thompson as Burke in the 1985 movie, 'Burke & Wills'.