Big Red gets its name from being … well, red … It is the largest red sand dune located 35 kilometers west of Birdsville on the way to Popelles Corner, the reconnaissance point that marks the corner of three states, Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Big Red, as it is affectionately known, is the first and highest of approximately 1,100 sand dunes in this area. Four-wheel drive enthusiasts make it a point of climbing Big Red, as no trip to Birdsville is complete without having climbed this great sand dune and having enjoyed a romantic sunrise or sunset under a clear sky and magnificent.

Getting to Birdsville is an adventure in itself. The traveler can travel to this area on a four-wheel drive, plane or as part of an adventure tour. Whichever way it is fun and unforgettable trip.

Your trip can start from Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin, or Sydney. My journey began in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. Leaving Brisbane I traveled to Charleville. In Charleville you just have to visit the COSMOS center, here you can literally enjoy the wonders of the universe. The Cosmos center has tours of the facilities and the latter at night, visitors enjoy the celestial wonder, while looking through powerful telescopes planets and stars millions of light years away, all the time the story of various stars and planets. , by expert astronomers at the facility.

Walking around Charleville, TAKE TIME TO ENJOY THE BEAUTIFUL OLD AND WELL PRESERVED BUILDINGS FROM AN AGE BACK, mingle with the locals and you will have a feeling of the warmth that the people of Australia are famous for, from Charleville to Quilpie, and the country continually changes from fertile grazing land to arid semi-arid and gibber desert, as you enter canal country the road changes to gravel and bull dust, then all of a sudden a bitumen track appears out of nowhere and the Now abandoned Hotel Betoota, the only inhabitants some lizards and snakes. The next stop is Birdsville, which appears on the horizon like a mirage.

Birdsville, here at last and the beginning of the adventure through the Simpson desert to the poeppels corner located at:

Latitude: 25.99722 S 25 59’49.99 “S

Length: 137.9996 E 137 59’58.57 “E

Altitude: 23 m above sea level

While in Birdsville, be sure to visit the historic Birdsville Hotel and have a beer in the Australian outback.