Comment: Peter Muir Track

Awesome find Alan,

Peter Muir's Track - I like the name.
Looks like I've got another track to tackle.

Hi Alan.
Read all the Peter Muir books, rare books most of them. From memory he was beaten to empress springs though only by a few days i think. We visited the spring a few years ago and spent a night there on a cloudless night. How close it was for David Carnegie no water there and i guess they would have perished. It was dry when we were there.
Must have been a great drive.
He certainly got around, cant imagine how difficult it must have been to be the first vehicle to get to the carnarvon ranges, some of the tracks were bad enough this year when we were there.
Cheers Graeme.

Hi Alan and Phil.
You guys probibly already know but Peter Muir wrote 35 books right through from his early days with the Apb till he started prospecting with a metal detector one of the first. His aboriginal wife Dooly was able to spot nuggets by eye, specking they called it. Most of the books are a sort of diary form but riveting reading and hard to put down once started. Unfortunately most are rare books and only avalible from Batte libary. There are a few in print however. The Empress spring book is very interesting and i think he had a few goes and actually got beaten to the target by a few days if my memory serves me right. How he managed to write all those books is beyond me thats for sure but they are an acurrate record of life in those times. All his travels and exploration were in the old short wheel base landrover with its limitations and short range.
I believe he is still alive and living in Leonora.
Cheers Graeme.