Willem posted:

Hi Ads

Yes, thanks for the message. I arrived home yesterday arvo after being released early. Pretty much confined to bed with short walks using two walking sticks...lol. It will take around 8 weeks to be able to walk without an aid.

Hope you enjoyed your weekend in the Sunshine State :o)

Cheers

Willem posted:

Thats what I figured, Bill. Will have to drive down to the Yorke Peninsula to get me chocco now....sigh lol

Willem posted:

Hi Jim

Yes, there wasn't all that much to snap. The scenery is pretty featureless except for a hill here and there.

Although, in the middle of absolutely nowhere, there is a properly built up and graded road, about 1km in length, which cuts through a beautiful stand of Desert Oaks. As the trees taper off the corrugated track returns.

Cheers

Willem posted:

Hi Trevor

Thanks for the feedback and wishes. I have just had my second TKR (total knee replacement) and it is a slow process from here onwards for the next three months, but the end result should be total mobility again.

I am planning two, short and extreme, offroad excursions in 2006 and another 3 month trek, this time through the Nortwest of WA along the tracks I havent been yet.

Cheers

Member - Trevor R (QLD) posted:

Willem,

From your treks on your website you would find it hard to find places and tracks were you HAVEN'T been. I am going through some of them and they are a great read.
God speed with your recovery and I will talk soon.

Regards Trevor.

Member - John (Vic) posted:

Willem lost???? Nah!!! he is always spot on the beach he was talking about was actually Bondi.

Willem posted:

Trekkie,

Hahahahaha...moot point

Looking at the BIGGER picture, the meeting place and demarcation point between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean occours at Cape Leeuwin and that the Southern Ocean is a smaller part of the South Pacific Ocean.

I will have it changed however as it is marked so on my maps and thanks for pointing it out to me.

Cheers

Trekkie posted:

Willem

Really sorry to correct you (especially when I enjoyed reading about your trip) The Great Australian Bight is part of the Indian Ocean - not the Pacific. The Pacific ends on East coast of Oz and along the West Coast of Tassie

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Indian Ocean
Background: A spring 2000 decision by the International Hydrographic Organization delimited a fifth world ocean from the southern portions of the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean. The new ocean extends from the coast of Antarctica north to 60 degrees south latitude which coincides with the Antarctic Treaty Limit. The Indian Ocean remains the third-largest of the world's five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, but larger than the Southern Ocean and Arctic Ocean).
Location: body of water between Africa, the Southern Ocean, Asia, and Australia
Geographic coordinates: 20 00 S, 80 00 E
Area:
total: 68.556 million sq km
note: includes Andaman Sea, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Great Australian Bight, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Mozambique Channel, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Strait of Malacca, and other tributary water bodies
Ports and harbors: Calcutta (India), Chennai (Madras; India), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Durban (South Africa), Jakarta (Indonesia), Melbourne (Australia), Mumbai (Bombay; India), Richards Bay (South Africa)

Willem posted:

Hi Trekkie

I was unaware of the technical details of the boundaries of the oceans. I am sure that somewhere in my travels I had seen that the Pacific and Indian Oceans met at Cape Leeuwin. Maybe I read it on an outdated plaque.

Thanks for the follow up info.

Cheers

Willem posted:

Now I am just waiting for a very nice 2nd hand Troopy to come on the market......hahahahahahahaha