17 July 2012
STAGE
3 CSR Day 15
well 35 – KINYU, WELL 36 via BUNGABINNI –
KIRLKIRL (WANDA), WEll 37 – LIPURU (LIBRAL) (93km)
We headed off quite
early on a corrugated track for about 20 km from Well 33. The landscape was
flat and open. The corrugations were not as bad as what we were made to believe
from those travelling south. We took them slowly – between 22-25km and it was
generally a comfortable ride. As someone on the trip said we were travelling
slower than through a school zone. It was suggested they should take out the
bitumen around schools and put in corrugations – that would slow the traffic
right down.
We decided not to
go to Well 34 as it was another one in absolute ruin. From the turn off to
Well 35 and Well 36 we travelled through sand dune country and deset oak
forest. The scenery again was very interesting.
At Well 35 ruin
Oka 306 had a flat
tyre. So a longish morning tea break as that was attended to.
It was somewhat
confusing trying to work out the track from Well 35 to Well 36 that was through
the so called Great Oak Forest. We were going round in circles, our GPs units
were totally confused and the track out was not where we thought it should be.
We will never forget the exit from this well – round and round in circles.
We had intened to
see Bungabinni Well but somehow missed it. It was a lovely windy drive over
the dunes to Well 36.
After lunch we set
out for Well 37.
Very disappointing
as the literature referred to it as an intact well. Well that it definitely
was not.
The graves of the
three murdered stockmen are not far from the well.
As we recapped we
all felt that a lay day was needed soon. We thought we would wait until we got
to a place with water.
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