Comment: The Pilbara - Hamersley Ranges - An amazing (and frightening) quad ride

Hi Mick, brings back some memorys for me, i worked on the Shire of Ashburton some years ago and knew very well a grader driver that used to grade those very tracks and looking at the conditions of them he may well of been the last person to do so, i am certain they were graded as fire breaks and a lot were done in the "threat" of advancing fires, i even recall some being done at night, this guy knew it all like the back of his hand and could find his way around in the night out there ...... yes he was Aboriginal and from that area ........ spent time camping out with him and to be out there in those hills where very few had been and shut down the gen set and listen to the noises of the night was amazing, that was before some of the rail lines were in also and you could hear the trains coming from Para for many K's away ...... yep i was one of the few that was lucky enough to be legally stop and camp anyware up there and light up a fire, try that now days ..... cheers Mick and well put togeather ...........