just got home...

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Member - vivien C (VIC)

Hello to everyone,

We just got home this afternoon and now doing the "big unpack". Sad, how the things that were "home" for six weeks camping now look a little bit worse for the wear, dusty and in need of a good clean. J

ust catching up on all the news on exploroz... I hope that Glenn and his son are going ok now, can't understand fellow travellers not offering them assistance with water!! Just read with interest the bits on corrugations! That should be a four letter word! The only good thing about them is that they're generally found in the places that we want to go. That's good enough reason to just make the best of them. I told my partner...it's like childbirth..after a few months you forget how bad it was and you want to go through it all again!

Missed out on meeting up with Laura B at Kings Canyon by a couple of days..but she was having a great time and heading towards Dalhousie last we talked.

I will get a trip report together but for now am waiting on the arrival home of my daughter..haven't seen her for over a year!!! She's here in a couple of hours and I have to go and blow up the balloons and get the marching girls ready for the big parade!!

Best wishes to everyone...can't wait to read all your trip reports and good luck and happy travelling to those just about to head off.

Viv

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Reply By: Member - vivien C (VIC) - Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 18:30

Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 18:30

Forgot to say that we had a great trip and saw some fantastic country and scenery. Better than all the imagining and planning could ever have predicted.

Viv

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Reply By: Willem - Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 18:58

Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 18:58

Hi Vivien

Good to hear that you are back home safely and that you had a great holiday. We managed 8 weeks out in the western deserts and arrived home three weeks ago. Had a great time too.

Cheers

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Follow Up By: Member - vivien C (VIC) - Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 19:05

Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 19:05

Thanks Willem,

I read in one of your reports that you called the desert country "big sky country". That's exactly what I felt. The sky is just endless and at night like black velvet with the stars burning so brightly. I saw a shooting star every night. Now I just want to go back out there. It was like a garden of flowers, desert oak, white gums and spinifex. Every night we went to sleep to the sound of the insects chirruping away and in the morning we woke to an orchestra of birdsong that rivalled any classical music ever composed.

When we had finished our desert crossing on the Gary Junction Road I felt like I was leaving a friend..but one that I am determined to get better acquainted with.

Look forward to hearing your report.

Viv

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Reply By: Member - Doug T (W.A) - Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 19:50

Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 19:50

Vivien
Welcome back, sounds like that ol outback bug has bitten you ,glad you had a good time, since i wrote you last i have moved from Mt Isa to Perth , just been on a job up to Newman , was lovely and warm ,

Doug

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Follow Up By: Member - vivien C (VIC) - Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 20:26

Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 20:26

Doug,

We were near Newman..spent a couple of days driving the Skull Springs and the Woodstock Hillside roads. That's beautiful country around there.

Hope you're enjoying Perth.

Viv

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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 22:05

Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 22:05

Vivien - you may be able to answer Bob's post asking about Marble Bar to the Highway.

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Reply By: Footloose - Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 20:25

Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 20:25

Hi Vivien, glad to see you enjoyed your trip. Hope the info I gave you re the GJT etc was appropriate and useful.

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Follow Up By: Member - vivien C (VIC) - Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 20:34

Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 20:34

Hello Footloose

Your information was both...appropriate and useful. We followed the Len Beadell markers and also called in at Kiwirrkurra to look at the ration truck. When we came to the Sandy Blight and Gary Highway roads we wished that we had the time....one day we will. The road was pretty good (mostly) and never endingly interesting.

Thanks

Viv

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Reply By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses - Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 20:36

Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 20:36

Welcome home Vivien, hope you are bringing some rain with you though. The people up there need it where you are, but I guess you are not thinking of that with your daughter home. It doesn't seem like you have been away long enough, and Heather said, "home, ALREADY??"

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Follow Up By: Member - vivien C (VIC) - Saturday, Sep 09, 2006 at 17:15

Saturday, Sep 09, 2006 at 17:15

Thanks John,

Hannah is home and we spent until after midnight last night talking. She's at the local football today..Beulah has three teams in the footy and they're out if they lose today.

As for the rain well on the way home we got the message to say that we'd had about an inch which is just wonderful. It's kept things going for a bit longer and hopefully we'll get some Spring rain.

Yes, six weeks has gone by. When you're away it seems as if the days stretch out endlessly and you fit so much in to them. Once you're home it seems like a blink since you've been gone. Oh well, there's always next year to plan and dream about.

I'm trying to write a trip report but finding it hard to condense six weeks into a few paragraphs. It was all great.

Hope all is well with you ....Hope to catch up with you both at Willem's get together next year.

Best wishes

Viv

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Follow Up By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses - Saturday, Sep 09, 2006 at 18:01

Saturday, Sep 09, 2006 at 18:01

Glad there was enough rain to do some good. Our district is looking good but it usually gets too much rain. No runoff so dams have to be pumped full if you need them. Lots of farmers have been doing just that. We pump our stock water from bores here.

We were going to be catching up with the people we met crossing the Simpson at Lake Mungo but they have had to put off that trip. We would have called to say g'day, not sure if that will be on so it probably would be at Warraweena next July, though it isn't difficult to go to the Murray before then.

Cheers.

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Reply By: Member - Doug T (W.A) - Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 22:13

Friday, Sep 08, 2006 at 22:13

Viv
Oh so you went to Kiwirrkurra, I went out there twice from Alice Springs last , Escorted to houses out there for people to demolish, I still can't work out why after 40,000 years all of a sudden they need houses, No I am not prejudice just realistic, I tend to analyze everything in perspective.As for Perth ...well it's a bit blowy and cool at the moment and I think I might migrate North to Carnarvon next year,a bit closer to the CSR which is my next dream to fulfill

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Follow Up By: Member - vivien C (VIC) - Saturday, Sep 09, 2006 at 17:22

Saturday, Sep 09, 2006 at 17:22

Hello Doug,

Carnarvon would be nice and close to a lot of interesting places.

The CSR is one of my "hope list" places too but in the meantime I think next year will be a trip up to the Gulf Country...Burketown to Borroloola and then to Darwin. Ray hasn't been up into that country yet and I can't drag him into the deserts until he's been there.

After that it's out into the deserts we go!! Gunbarrel, CSR, Sandy Blight, Connie Sue etc etc.

Hope Perth warms up soon....Best wishes.

Viv

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