Comment: Burton's Perth to Cape York Carnarvon Gorge to the Gold Coast Day 25-26

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Burton's Perth to Cape York Carnarvon Gorge to the Gold Coast Day 25-26 - 24 & 25 April 2011

That rarely seen substance rain drops threatened for the first time in a long while last night. The wind started, nuts and branches collided with the canvas and then fortunately it all went away.

Member - Andrew & Jen

Hullo Mike amd Amanda
A wonderful record of your trip. Packed with info re campsites, places worth going to, road conditions, etc. Although a fag to write, well worth it as a record of your adventures - something to read again later and relive!
A book you might like to read on coal mining is "Rich land, Waste land" by Sharyn Munro - given your asides re mining, I think you would get a lot from it.
Cheers
Andrew
PS I notice your aerial base with no aerial attached from early in your trip. Was that a fatigue failure or did you just not use it?

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Reply By: Mike & Amanda - Wednesday, Mar 04, 2015 at 01:13

Wednesday, Mar 04, 2015 at 01:13

Thanks Andrew, I'll chase it up! That aerial is for a Yaesu amateur radio mounted high up behind the rear passenger seats. We moved it there for this trip with the likelihood of water coming in the car. Once I was a keen communicator and now I only want to use it should there be an emergency, too busy listening to good music or the UHF in-car. The Terlin multiband antenna lives up in the PVC tube on the roof. I've found that anything mounted on the Roo bar tends to break with continuous aggressive corrugations so now we have nothing mounted there. Also we have a sat phone, so the radio is becoming more redundant...Mike

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