Good morning to all the responders to our queries .
Back in March of this year I sent out a call on this
forum for information on the
Canning stock Route.
Well we survived, but what an experience, thank you all for you very valuable input, we had the trip of a life time cut short mainly due to equipment failure.
let me start at the beginning, we left
Perth on the 27th of April and went to
halls creek, we went down to wolf creek for our
camp for the night, and spent a few hours walking around
the crater the next morning, and the world, was wonderful, we had our first taste of a billion flies, for breakfast. and that was not what anybody had warned us about. the trip was actually cut short .
We had eight days on the track itself, in that time we lost one fridge, one auxillary battery, two tyres, and the sat phone was to spasmodic and virtually useless, we lost half of our food supply due to the failed fridge.
We also learnt the hard way that even though we had extensive four wheel drive experience in several different types of 4x4 over the years we did not know all the capabilities of this new ford
ranger. and I cant stress this enough if your going to do the
Canning Stock route, go and do a four wheel drive course first , especially if you are in a newer 4x4 , as we had to learn as we went it was something that neither of us were aware of even though we had done a course there were things that we had either forgotten or did not have information about, but we soon taught our selves on how things actually worked.
We terminated the trip at Kuniwaritji, due to the loss of tyres and communications, better to be safe than sorry, and have people come out looking for us through our own stupidity, so we called it a day and came
home early .
All in all we did enjoy what we saw for our eight days, and the corrugations were not as bad as we thought they were going to be, but tyre pressures and speed were the factors that made them bearable, as my mate said the slower the better and as we were not in a rush, who cared.
We only saw two other travellers in the whole eight days. Thank you every one that contributed for your knowledge.