A great weekend until we were coming
home, but more on that later.
Saturday pack the trailer go to Micks place (treebruiser) and wait for Ness to finish work then off to the Watagans arrived about 4.00pm setup, and settle in a have a couple of beers.
The clouds started to roll in so we put up the tarp over the pinic table light the fire and have diner then down it came a few more beers then bed.
It rained all night nearly but we woke up to cloudy skys but no rain so we had breakfast and waited for Peter to arrive, which is another story which Pete will tell.
So we head off exploring, we went down a few tracks nothing to challenging but OK, one section of a track there was a narrow
creek crossing with a sharp turn and not much room to manouver with deep hole on the inside that you droped into making the turn, i punched the sand wall (no damage) had to reverse back into the hole to get around but made it, Pete got around OK then Mick made it but broke his arial on the wall apart from that no other damage, there was too much pruning of the brush and trees but oh
well something that can't be avoided on some tracks, then the last track we found was a bit of a challenge steep, rutted and rocks with sharp turns deep holes and gullys, Pete almost cleaned me and Mick up when he came flying out of the gully at a 100 mph :o :P he didn't want to get stuck he said, he saw Mick get stuck on the first attempt (not enough momentum)so Pete give it to her :D :unsure: ;) we had some fun albeit a very large amount of bush
clearing. (honest Mick we did)
On the GPS and the maps it was a track that had
creek crossing and joined other tracks further on (30yrs ago maybe) but not now, we decided to push on to see where it came out knowing that if it didn't we could always go back, it would have been a challenge but it was doable might have been a bit of winching and snatching but all part of the fun.
Anyway on we went to the end of the track and a
locked gate :rolleyes: :angry:
There was a house on the
hill above us so we talked about should we turn around and go back or take another track to a fallen tree that we had been on earlier in the day or go up to the house and ask for the key for the
gate, all we could think about was the reception that we would get, thankfully the woman was friendly and gave us the key and off we went back to
camp.
We had ended up at Dairy Arms on the road to Wollembi a quick look at the maps and the GPS and we went back via Watagans Creek Rd had lunch (at 5.00pm) packed up, just in time as it started raining again as we finished.
The F3 one road i hate with a passion and with good reason too it brings out the lunatic fringe from cowboy truckies (not all) to lunatic 4WDrivers and dad mum and the kids coming
home from a weekend away AND this bloke :angry: :angry: :angry: in his commerdore wagon coming from a full day at the dogs,bleepand tired :angry: :angry: and with it being wet and still raining just an accident waiting to happen and it did, :o involving us, Mick and a
young bloke in his 2 week old commerdore ute all 3 of which were towing a trailer, the carnage that happened before my eyes was just plain scarey, he was entering the F3 when he lost control shot across in front of me bounced off the guard rail was hit by the ute spun in front of me again then back in front of the ute again (who was sideways by this time beside me) hit the ute again then spun back behind me and into Micks camper before coming to rest in the
breakdown lane along with everyone else, out of this not a scratch to us, Micks camper is stuffed and the
young blokes ute who took the brunt of the crash was F*#@ED :o luckly no one was injured a bit shaken but OK, so that was our day/weekend away an eventfull end to a great weekend it could of been so much worse thankfully all is good.
On a brighter note all cars preformed
well no failures no injuries a good drive in the Watagans.
Baz.
Pix will be soon.