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28 Oct 08 - The Hunt Oil Road - Remote area travel at its best - Track condition and trip report
24 Oct 08 - The Spectacular Rudall River National Park - Some history, highlights and places.
28 Sep 08 - Murray Sunset National Park
27 Sep 08 - Murray Kulkyne National Park
26 Sep 08 - Murray-Kulkyne National Park
14 Sep 08 - Reseating a tubeless tyre using butane gas
09 Aug 08 - Sand & Spinifex Tour 2008 - Track Condition Report
29 Jul 08 - Down the Ghan Heritage Trail to Charlotte Waters.
26 Jul 08 - Alice Springs - Saturday 26th July to Monday 28th July.
25 Jul 08 - Sandy Blight Junction Track - Sir Frederick Range & on to Mt Ebenezer Station
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The cleared line (21 km west of Eagle Highway) WA
Submitted: Tuesday, Jul 01, 2008 at 00:00
Tuesday 1st July, 2008 (Canada Day)
Cleared Line, 21km east of the Eagle Hwy
24 45 28.07 s 124 10 6.27 E
The Hunt Oil Road
This evening the acacia are festooned with bunting and even the dunny shovel acts as a stand for a rosette sporting the red maple leaf of you know where. Yep its Canada Day! God help us. First things first, we awoke to a chilly morning. While enjoying a jaffle for breakfast I noticed the trailer
Pushing through the spinifex
was on an odd angler. Sure enough, one tyre was flat on the bottom. Out came the compressor and I soon located a small stake in the side wall which I removed with plyers. In went the plug and it was all over and I was back to my tea within 10 minutes. God I love the spaghetti puncture repair! Viva tubeless!
ON1 marker and our turn left
We were
on the road
by 8:30 a.m. and heading north once again through the spinifex and mulga of the Hunt. We reached the ON 1 survey mark in good time and then started in the 11 km journey along the graded line. While terribly overgrown and no
Camels on the track
real track to follow, by keeping a look out for the small mounds of stone pushed to the sides by the initial grade of the track back whenever, and by taking visual lines, it was pretty easy to maintain a straight line. We met a big mob of 25 or so inquisitive camels at the half way mark all of whom
We cross the Gunbarrell Highway
were very keen to come forward for a look at us. All in very good condition. When we moved off, there were camels silhouetted against the ridgelines in the distance to our north. Damn things were everywhere.
Picturesque puncture repair stop!
OUCH!!!! The culprit!
The last several km of the track were heavily wooded all of it intent on doing as much damage as possible to our vehicles. We did however reach the Gunbarrel unscathed, or so I thought. Once crossed the Gunbarrel, we moved west again only to reveal my second flat for the day. Front left hand tyre again.
Mungilli outstation
It was easy to find as I could hear the air escaping. Another side-wall stake but on the inside. It was fixed inside ten minutes and then time for a cuppa before heading off again across the stony ranges and into the sand and spinifex towards the Eagle Highway and long abandoned Mungilli outstation.
The amazing bush oven!
The Mungilli outstation stands as an odd collection of buildings, sheds, toilets and tanks and one amazing bush oven! There was some water available so I took the advantage to get washed out near the woodpile. I felt great for it to. I topped up my general purpose water before heading north again. The Eagle was in good nick considering. Some patches were great, others overgrown with scrub forcing a more winding route off track. At Eagle Hussar we located the No.1 bore, shed and remains of the old airstrip before turning left onto the cut line and beginning our journey west. The cut line was a different kettle of fish all
Eagle et al Hussar Bore Eagle Highway WA
together. Much slower and heavier going with little or no track at times. Again, in some areas the gibber provided a highway like surface for a kilometres before deteriorating into nothing.
Our track west on the Cleared Line
In the growing shadows of the afternoon, hazards were becoming hard to see so we pulled over in a copse of acacia for the night. We’re some 20 kilometres east of the turn for
Mount Madley
.
The camp chef at work.
I whipped up a smoked salmon risotto and a fair bit was drunk culminating with Scott calling Canada at $3 per minutes for the best part of an hour. HAPPY CANADA DAY.
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All Entries July 2008
16 Jul 2008 - Desert Queens Baths - exploring the Broadhurst Ranges, Rudall River WA
01 Jul 2008 - The cleared line (21 km west of Eagle Highway) WA
15 Jul 2008 - Rest day at the Desert Queens Baths - Rudall River WA
02 Jul 2008 - Mount Madley Gibson Desert WA
06 Jul 2008 - Constance Headland to the Calverts
24 Jul 2008 - Sandy Blight Junction Road - Day of bush welding
14 Jul 2008 - Our first Rudall expedition - Day 2 and then on to Desert Queen Baths
29 Jul 2008 - Down the Ghan Heritage Trail to Charlotte Waters.
13 Jul 2008 - Our first Rudall expedition - desperate donkeys, fools gold and unmapped mountains!
26 Jul 2008 - Alice Springs - Saturday 26th July to Monday 28th July.
12 Jul 2008 - Exploring the northwest edge of the Throssell Ranges (Rudall River) - Turtle Rockhole
25 Jul 2008 - Sandy Blight Junction Track - Sir Frederick Range & on to Mt Ebenezer Station
11 Jul 2008 - Back in Rudall River Again - Tjingkulatjatjarra (Tjarra) Pool WA
23 Jul 2008 - Sandy Blight Junction Track NT
10 Jul 2008 - On the Puntawarri - "An extremely Isolated & treacherous track" or so the legend says!
22 Jul 2008 - Gary Junction Road to Kiwirrkurra WA
09 Jul 2008 - Savory Creek, 78 km west of the Canning
21 Jul 2008 - Rocky Knoll Wapet Track WA
08 Jul 2008 - An eventful day at Durba
20 Jul 2008 - Expedition into Yandagooge Gap - Rudall River NP
07 Jul 2008 - Calvert Range to Durba Springs
19 Jul 2008 - Expedition into Yandagooge Gap - Rudall River NP
05 Jul 2008 - Yowyungoo Gorge, Mungulu Hills WA
18 Jul 2008 - Expedition into Yandagooge Gap - Rudall River NP
04 Jul 2008 - Spinifex Camp Approx 2km north east of Burrabudingu Soak, Little Sandy Desert WA
17 Jul 2008 - Expedition into Yandagooge Gap - Rudall River NP
03 Jul 2008 - Unnamed Rockhole - Little Sandy Desert WA
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