Madhat 4WD Adventures

17/06/2024

Bit chilly tonight isn't it? 🥶

We hope wherever you are you're staying warm, either indoors or our favourite way, rugged up by the crackling fire🔥

Nothing beats it👌

15/06/2024

TOUR UPDATE!👇

Our remaining 2024 tours are at full capacity! But if you missed out this year, head to our website and sign up to be the first to hear when future tours are released✅

There's plenty more adventure to come🙌
📲https://madhat4wd.com.au/tagalong4wdtours-2/

13/06/2024

Unforgettable views👌

Ditch the office for the dirt and join us for the adventure of a lifetime!

Where would you like to explore next?🗺
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07/06/2024

I think she's due for a service🤷‍♀️😂

Make sure to get your 4WD serviced and checked over before heading out on any off-road adventures! Safety is the most important thing when travelling in remote locations, so put those preventative measures in place before hitting the dirt!✅

Ready to join us?👇
📲https://madhat4wd.com.au/

02/06/2024

Adventures in and out of the car👌

Come and join us in 2024 with our final two trips still available to book, with limited spots remaining!✅

Don't miss the escape of a lifetime😊
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31/05/2024

Mate, have you seen my shoes?😂

If you're in need we found a few on our travels last week, somewhere between Kingoonya and Andamooka👌

What size are you after?🥾

30/05/2024

A good read about the pioneers of transport in Outback SA

HISTORY The first mailman Harry Ding delivered vital supplies and people along the Birdsville Track several years before the legendary Tom Kruse took over the run and made it famous. STORY JOHN DUNN Birdsville Mail truck negotiating damp track, with help from passengers, 1939. It’s exactly a centu...

30/05/2024

Just one spot left now on our Central Australia Simpson Desert Tour departing16th August. Amazing destinations, stunning scenery, unforgettable experiences, https://mailchi.mp/madhat4wd/central_australia_simpson_desert_aug_2024

26/05/2024

Get epic shots like this on our Central Australia & Simpson Desert trip in August!

What's included?
👌18-day adventure
🗺Visit iconic locations including Finke Gorge, Kings Canyon and Palm Valley
🏜5 day crossing of the Simpson Desert
🌅Give your 4WD a go on Big Red

Only TWO spots remaining on this tour so head over to our website to secure your spot today and don't miss out!👇
📲https://madhat4wd.com.au/

25/05/2024

The birdlife out west right now is amazing. This is taken near Betoota

24/05/2024

Check out this view!🙌

This is a drone shot of Googs Lake from our recent Outback Corner Country trip✅

It doesn't get better than this👌
📱https://madhat4wd.com.au/

21/05/2024

Lake Torrens SA

21/05/2024

More adventures yesterday driving the very challenging Mt Gill track in the Flinders Ranges. Definitely not for beginners. More amazing campsites and nights around the fire.

19/05/2024

What an awesome couple of days. From Kingoonya, via Woomera to Andamooka where we met and had dinner around the fire with some locals and then today overland to Farina. Some spectacular landscapes and expansive views of Lake Torrens and some amazing 4 wheel driving across some remote country.

18/05/2024

Hanging out with the locals at Andamooka. Outback hospitality at its best. Lovely bunch of people around a fire sharing stories and a feed. Thanks to Andamooka’s Dukes Bottlehouse Motel.

17/05/2024

Googs Lake on the Googs Track SA. Similar to the Simpson Desert but can be done in a day

17/05/2024

So our SA adventure has so far taken us to Whyalla, Gawler Ranges, Ceduna, The Googs Track and finally tonight to the Kingoonya Hotel. Amazing landscapes, brutal corregations, rough and dusty tracks and magnificent sky’s have made for an adventurous few days as we seek to find those far flung and out of the way places. Not sure what tomorrow will bring but we are sure it will be an adventure

16/05/2024

Some lovely feedback from our recent Flinders Ranges trip!🙌

Still thinking about hitting the red dirt? Come join us for one of our remaining 2024 trips!✅

Spots are limited so head to our website to book today👇
📲https://madhat4wd.com.au/

14/05/2024

This is our kind of office view👌

Soak up the natural beauty of this country with all its flora and fauna while adventuring on our Madhat 4WD tours!🌄

Monday's are never boring out here🙌

11/05/2024

The best of both worlds👌

Can't decide between a beach or bush escape? Why not enjoy both with our tour in October! There are only 2 spots remaining, so make sure to head to our website and secure your spot ASAP✅

You won't want to miss out on views like this🙌
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10/05/2024

Corner Country Tour Plans changed due to rain and road closures

09/05/2024

Why choose Madhat?👇

Our tours are led by owner and operator Guy Drake who has over 20 years of experience in tag-along tours, ensuring the same quality of safety, leadership and experience every time you hit the road!✅

There's a reason why we have so many returning adventurers!😉

Why not join the crew? Head to our website to book today🙌
📲https://madhat4wd.com.au/

06/05/2024

03/05/2024

Book your Central Australia and Simpson Desert 4WD Tagalong Adventure today. Just 2 spots left. https://madhat4wd.com.au/aug-2024/

03/05/2024

The desert is still open to be crossed and likely to be open for the season👍

02/05/2024

The perfect day for an adventure🙌

We just got back from our incredible 14-day adventure to the Flinders Ranges and beyond, and are hanging to hit the road again. Luckily we have our Corner Country trip in May coming up fast!🌄

Don't miss out on views like this, jump on our website and check out our upcoming tours.

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27/04/2024

Heading out for the long weekend?🌳

Maybe it's a quick beach trip or a weekend camping with some mates, get outside and soak up this beautiful weather🙌

It's the perfect way to spend a weekend👌

24/04/2024

Love it. Such skill in describing the bush in lyrical prose

This was Banjo's response to Henry Lawson poem 'Up the Country' ... The "Bulletin Debate" was a well-publicised dispute between two of Australia's best known writers and poets, Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. (That's PATERSON with one 't' folks) The debate took place via a series of poems about the merits of living in the Australian "bush", published from 1892 to 1893.

In Defence of the Bush ... Banjo Paterson

So you’re back from up the country, Mister Lawson, where you went,
And you’re cursing all the business in a bitter discontent;
Well, we grieve to disappoint you, and it makes us sad to hear
That it wasn’t cool and shady — and there wasn’t plenty beer,
And the loony bullock snorted when you first came into view;
Well, you know it’s not so often that he sees a swell like you;
And the roads were hot and dusty, and the plains were burnt and brown,
And no doubt you’re better suited drinking lemon-squash in town.

Yet, perchance, if you should journey down the very track you went
In a month or two at furthest you would wonder what it meant,
Where the sun-baked earth was gasping like a creature in its pain
You would find the grasses waving like a field of summer grain,
And the miles of thirsty gutters blocked with sand and choked with mud,
You would find them mighty rivers with a turbid, sweeping flood;
For the rain and drought and sunshine make no changes in the street,
In the sullen line of buildings and the ceaseless tramp of feet;

But the bush hath moods and changes, as the seasons rise and fall,
And the men who know the bush-land — they are loyal through it all.
But you found the bush was dismal and a land of no delight,
Did you chance to hear a chorus in the shearers’ huts at night?
Did they “rise up, William Riley” by the camp-fire’s cheery blaze?
Did they rise him as we rose him in the good old droving days?
And the women of the homesteads and the men you chanced to meet –
Were their faces sour and saddened like the “faces in the street”?

And the “shy selector children” — were they better now or worse
Than the little city urchins who would greet you with a curse?
Is not such a life much better than the squalid street and square
Where the fallen women flaunt it in the fierce electric glare,
Where the sempstress plies her sewing till her eyes are sore and red
In a filthy, dirty attic toiling on for daily bread?
Did you hear no sweeter voices in the music of the bush
Than the roar of trams and ‘buses, and the war-whoop of “the push”?

Did the magpies rouse your slumbers with their carol sweet and strange?
Did you hear the silver chiming of the bellbirds on the range?
But, perchance, the wild birds’ music by your senses was despised,
For you say you’ll stay in townships till the bush is civilised.
Would you make it a tea-garden and on Sundays have a band
Where the “blokes” might take their “donahs”, with a “public” close at hand?
You had better stick to Sydney and make merry with the “push”,
For the bush will never suit you, and you’ll never suit the bush.