12 July 2012
STAGE
3 CSR Day 10
From Well 19 to WELL 21 - Tjilkabulka, 22-
matirlirri and GeoRGIA BORE (115km)
About a kilometre
from where we camped we came across a lovely campsite amongst the desert oaks.
It was another picturesque drive this morning through groves of desert oaks.
The drive to
Savoury Creek was described as pleasant in the ‚bible‘ and I suppose they were
right if you disregarded the bouncy, bouncy dunes and the odd bit of
corrugation. We met traffic going south again.
Savoury Creek was
interesting. There was quite a bit of water in it. When we got to the
crossing we made sure that the driver of the lead car walked across it and back
to check it out.
You had to drive
across a ‚dry‘ part of the slat water creek and then across a section of water.
Us girls decided to walk across and take some pictures from the other side.
We got some calls across the creek regarding ‚what we were doing‘ as we had to
go off to the side to get across. In places it was very soft.
Only one vehicle
crossed at a time. The first vehicle came through okay but with some
acceleration through the water. It was a rough crossing especially through the
water section.
Our vehicle came
next and our water bucket jumped out from its home into the creek over the bouncy water part.
Garry walked out to retrieve it.
Then came Harry and
did his Oka do a back wheel bounce in the air as he crossed as he hit the hole
and/or rock.
Then we rambled on
along the track continuing to enjoy the sights.
We did not go into
Well 20 as we decided fuel was too precious for the 20km return side trip and
the well had collapsed and was only a depression in the ground.
As we made our way
to Well 21 we stopped and explored Lake Disappointment.
The salt bushes
with their contorted limbs looked like miniature bonsai. We saw some insects
caught in the salty surface.
Further along the
track were the remains of a utility mounted caravan that had shaken to bits on
the track.
We stopped at well
21 for a look. There are stories about an alleged murder associated with this
well.
We kept going
straight ahead from here to Well 22 and had some fabulous views as we crested
sand dunes.
At one of our stops
Harry noticed an indentation in his diff cover but the car was still going.
We decided to continue to Gorgia Bore and look a it there. Everyone was ready
to tow it if necessary. He did struggle to cross one dune and as the other
Oka’s couldn’t get back up to the dune reversing, Garry turned around and towed
him reversing back down.
A very quick look
at Well 22 as all that’s left is an indentation in the ground.
Then we continued
onto Georgia Bore on the Talawana Track.
There is good water
here as CRA Exploration left a hand operated pump for use by travellers here.
It is a lovely campsite.
However, the boys
were immediately under the cover seing what the problem was. Apparently all
the bolts in the diff had not been tightened by whoever last worked on it and
were very loose and one of the bolts had sheared off. So they drained the oil,
did what they had to do and then using a stocking filtered the oil of any
filings and reused it. Hubby also had some oil with him and they used that as
well to fill it up.
We were all rather
subdued this evening and just grateful that it was not anything more serious.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment