As well as heading off to Lake Dumbleyung in Western Australia this month following in the large footprints made by Donald Campbell, I am also hoping to make it back to South Australia in November. Campbell achieved the unique double of the World Land Speed Record (Lake Eyre, SA ,17th July 1964) and World Water Speed Record (Lake Dumbleyung, WA, 31st December 1964) in the same year. In between he also broke the Australian Water Speed Record on Lake Bonney at Barmera in South Australia on 23rd November 1964. It should make for a nice little chapter on the book I am writing celebrating the British Speed King’s annus mirabilis 50 years ago in Australia.
