RED EARTH EXPEDITION - PART 2 - Tanja und Denis Katzer – Expedition & Adventure

RED EARTH EXPEDITION - PHASE 2

14.12.2000 - 12.03.2001 Preparations for Stage 2
13.03.2001 - 14.03.2001 Tracks found
15.03.2001 - 16.03.2001 Camels still on Anna Plains?
17.03.2001 - 24.03.2001 Landing strips under water
25.03.2001 - 01.04.2001 Camels found & Visa arrived
02.04.2001 Return to Australia, friends, our dog Rufus and our kangaroo Shiron
03.04.2001 - 21.04.2001 Days of handling and of learning
22.04.2001 Drive to the north west
23.04.2001 Pleasant Station Accommodation
24.04.2001 Dangerous break-down
25.04.2001 Unpleasant news
26.04.2001 Highs and lows at Anna Plain Station
27.04.2001 First news of our missing escapees
28.04.2001 Our Red Earth Expedition will continue
29.04.2001 Dangerous load
30.04.2001 The strange looking narrow passage
01.05.2001 Delicious cocktail
02.05.2001 Suddenly the unbelievable happens
03.05.2001 Preparing for training
04.05.2001 Jasper learns the most important command
05.05.2001 Hot breath burns in our lungs
06.05.2001 Jeremy is attacked by a shark
07.05.2001 Edgar tries to bite me in the head
08.05.2001 Not only camel training is dangerous
09.05.2001 - 10.05.2001 We walk on high heels
11.05.2001 Jasper send us into despair
12.05.2001 800 kilometres detour?
13.05.2001 - 15.05.2001 Would-be monster
16.05.2001 Computer problems
17.05.2001 - 19.05.2001 Jasper gives us a portion of trust
20.05.2001 The first direct transmission into the website
21.05.2001 Great training success
22.05.2001 - 26.05.2001 Our expedition members are wormed
27.05.2001 Edgar attacks me
28.05.2001 - 30.05.2001 Organising further supplies
31.05.2001 - 07.06.2001 Visited by Aborigine women
08.06.2001 - 10.06.2001 Mother Earth whispers inviting words in the great desert
11.06.2001 Meeting with Aborigines, Narrow escape, Broome
12.06.2001 Busy time in Broome
13.06.2001 Back at Anna Plains
14.06.2001 First test run with the load almost fails
15.06.2001 Last day before departure
16.06.2001 Starting off on the second leg of the Red Earth Expedition
17.06.2001 I live the moment so intensively as if it were the last in my life
18.06.2001 Narrow gates make our pulses race
19.06.2001 An exhausting day of discoveries leads us into another world
20.06.2001 Cannibalistic Beast turns Sebastian into a Monster
21.06.2001 Death is a constant companion in life
22.06.2001 - 08.07.2001 Busy time at 80 Mile Beach Caravan Park
09.07.2001 Heading for the Great Sandy Desert
10.07.2001 I live seconds of an unreal nightmare
11.07.2001 Water barrels by the track to ensure survival of the Aborigines
12.07.2001 Battle for supremacy between beast and beast
13.07.2001 Heavy raindrops awaken me
14.07.2001 Will we drown in a desert lake?
15.07.2001 Emergency! Fleeing the floods
16.07.2001 Evacuating the camp
17.07.2001 Will Goola and Istan die of pneumonia?
18.07.2001 Temperature measured in a camel's mouth
19.07.2001 We humans are small and helpless against the forces of the Earth
20.07.2001 Goola and Istan's treatment
21.07.2001 Standstill in the desert highlights the lows of my "self"
22.07.2001 Scorpion in front of the tent
23.07.2001 Days at Edgar Battle Camp remain busy
24.07.2001 Hopefully this camp will not be a place of death
25.07.2001 I fall into a deep well of depression
26.07.2001 Listening to conversations on the radio
27.07.2001 To enjoy the moment sounds so theoretical and simple
28.07.2001 Rufus, the greatest lizard hunter of all time
29.07.2001 Will Goola survive another day?
30.07.2001 Goola's mouth is full of maggots
31.07.2001 What would this world be without selfless, generous and caring friends
01.08.2001 Wild camel bull attacks
02.08.2001 Couple ignites dangerous bomb of bad energy
03.08.2001 Goola has decided
04.08.2001 The day after Goola's death
05.08.2001 Will Max join the Red Earth Expedition?
06.08.2001 Helpfulness breaks all boundaries
07.08.2001 Last day in Edgar Battle Camp
08.08.2001 Dangers behind every bend, under every stone
09.08.2001 We humans form the circle between life and death too
10.08.2001 Under attack
11.08.2001 Another day under the silver foil
12.08.2001 The nightly attacks don’t let up
13.08.2001 Moments like Christmas and New Year together.
14.08.2001 The positive events help us to ignore the smell of rotting flesh
15.08.2001 We take the friendly encounter as a good omen
16.08.2001 Suddenly the time with our friends belongs to the past
17.08.2001 - 18.08.2001 Top Secret is the heading
19.08.2001 Max brings up the rear
20.08.2001 I am glad of the chance to enter this immeasurable infinity
21.08.2001 Tourist attacked by camel bull
22.08.2001 The most beautiful of flowers do not interest me right now
23.08.2001 We are happy that our friends rejoice with us
24.08.2001 - 25.08.2001 I wonder what is to come
26.08.2001 It could have been worse
27.08.2001 We can’t let the sky fall on our heads
28.08.2001 Can thoughtlessness be excused?
29.08.2001 An exhausting twelve hour day
30.08.2001 Tanja’s birthday in the Great Sandy Desert
31.08.2001 A dog’s thoughts
02.09.2001 Periodontitis?
03.09.2001 Apparently this swamp can even swallow whole camels
04.09.2001 From the corner of my eye I see all four of Max’s feet pulled away
05.09.2001 A day on which our adrenalin levels soar
06.09.2001 Is the expedition at another turning point?
07.09.2001 - 08.09.2001 Where is the answer?
09.09.2001 Would the Nomads have had it any better than us?
11.09.2001 The land of the poisonous plants
12.09.2001 A terrible shock
13.09.2001 The children visit
14.09.2001 Events postpone our departure
15.09.2001 The behaviour of some people is puzzling
16.09.2001 - 18.09.2001 New route
19.09.2001 Our water consumption doubles unexpectedly
20.09.2001 Moths, insects and other flying nasties drive us to desperation
21.09.2001 - 22.09.2001 A great surprise and more frightening news
23.09.2001 Water and heat
24.09.2001 A time in which mankind overtakes himself
25.09.2001 Desert fire on the horizon and spooky visitor
26.09.2001 I miss the highs of hospitality
27.09.2001 We are treated like kings
28.09.2001 The meaning of our life?
29.09.2001 Eerie encounters and occurrences
01.10.2001 - 02.10.2001 Everything revolves around eating and drinking
03.10.2001 Last day in Road-worker Camp
04.10.2001 Amongst the desert oaks
05.10.2001 They’re a plague
06.10.2001 Inferno of natural forces
07.10.2001 Am I an impatient person?
08.10.2001 - 09.10.2001 We come to a decision
10.10.2001 Where does the meat in the supermarkets come from?
11.10.2001 Holiday
12.10.2001 The best shower of our lives so far
13.10.2001 A day like Christmas, New Year and Birthdays all together
14.10.2001 Fear of new saddles
15.10.2001 Blessed technology?
16.10.2001 Big shoes, heavy load
17.10.2001 Ssssssdag, I hear the bullets driving into his flesh
18.10.2001 First contact with flooded land
19.10.2001 - 21.10.2001 Do mosquito swarms react to words?
22.10.2001 The capability of the human body and where are it´s limits?
23.10.2001 Brush with the hectic world of the western civilised man
24.10.2001 Cats, a delicacy
25.10.2001 The water tastes bitter
26.10.2001 Heat or mozzies
29.10.2001 Dehydration or drowning, both are possible here
30.10.2001 Nearing the end
31.10.2001 At the bottom of the cooking pot
01.11.2001 Visit from above, Burnt land
02.11.2001 - 04.11.2001 Am I a happy man?
05.11.2001 Talks with the tribal leader / border crossing
06.11.2001 Ambush at Road-workers Camp
07.11.2001 It´s easy to burn in the spinifex grass
08.11.2001 Important Crossing
09.11.2001 - 11.11.2001 The weather drives us on
12.11.2001 Gusts of wind hurl themselves against the burnt and rain-whipped
13.11.2001 Day of waiting
14.11.2001 Shortcut, detour or dead-end?
15.11.2001 - 17.11.2001 Are we walking ourselves into ruin?
18.11.2001 Must we leave Max behind?
19.11.2001 Good old man
20.11.2001 Visit to Nirrippi
21.11.2001 From Aborigine land to station land
22.11.2001 A beautiful clearing
23.11.2001 - 25.11.2001 Meeting with Alex, the station owner
26.11.2001 Arrival in New Haven National Park
27.11.2001 Feelings of complete contentment, happiness and deep peace
28.11.2001 Freedom
29.11.2001 Our boys have gotten used to their freedom overnight
30.11.2001 - 07.12.2001 Reaching the white man´s civilization
08.12.2001 - 14.12.2001 The sacred sites of the Anangu
15.12.2001 - 31.12.2001 The last days before returning home

February 2001 bis December 2001
(1.683 kilometres on foot. West-Australien & Northern Territory)