Well Wayne has started his trip up the
Canning Stock Route and plans to report in every few days with a "word or two"...
He left Uluru on Wednesday morning with the group of excited customers, starting out from under the shadow of our famous monolith. (She was decked out in her purple dress for the occasion). Clear skies and a gorgeous day they headed in a south-westerly direction along the
Great Central Road.
The first night was a
bush camp and in his first days travel, he commented that along the way, they had seen more camels than cars...and massive amounts of yellow/green folliage which was surprising in such a desolate area. They've also spotted several dingos and roos and massive eagles who delight in gorging themselves on the road kill along the way.
Reaching
Warburton, fuel prices were $1.60 per litre.
The roads are in very good condition. Not littered with beer cans or rubbish but Wayne says he now knows where all the dead Falcons go to die!
An overnight stop at
Laverton, everyone was in great spirits and he has noted that the grocery stores are pretty good with plenty of fresh product.
Fuel at
Laverton was $1.35 a litre.
A nice meal at the local pub for the night where the meal was excellent.
Laverton is in a gold mining area and at the pub they were entertained when one bloke pulled a $4000 gold nuggett, out of his camera bag. Apparently they propsect for gold 9 months of the year and then head off to the big city. There are many prospecting nomads in and around the town.
Today they are heading north to
Wiluna, which will be the last civilised stop before reaching
Alice Springs in 20 days. [I got him out of his nice warm swag at 6:30am when I rang for this final update ha ha ha -Wayes Wife :-)]
So from tomorrow morning the great adventure starts, visiting as many wells as possible along the
Canning Stock Route.
It will be sat phone contact from then on, every second night during our 1 hourly window when it will be left on.
That's all for now,
Waye's Wife
p.s. Report from Wayne's wife...finally got the driveway swept and cleaned, the dogs been to the vets, kid to the dentist, the washing and mowing are done and I'm planning on doing the gutters today!...and he calls what he does work!