Gone Bush

Men’s Style Recently Took in the Birdsville Races as Well as the Dust, Flies and Vast Open Skies of the Birdsville Track on a Camping Trip Driving the Mazda BT-50.
 

One of Australia’s most iconic outback events is the annual Birdsville Races, held in the remote town of Birdsville on the edge of Australia’s vast Simpson Desert. The event swells Birdsville’s population of 115 people to about 7,000 people during the weekend of race-going and partying, and this year Men’s Style was in the thick of it before a drive down the legendary Birdsville Track in a Mazda BT-50.

The famous desert race meet draws a wide cast of characters – many in fancy dress – from all parts of Australia to watch horses and jockeys battle the endless dust in a seven-race meet, first held back in the 1880s. Australian GovernorGeneral Peter Cosgrove attended the hospitality marquee along with Men’s Style as we enjoyed the dry conditions with – what else in Australia? – icy cold beer.