Windy Corner

Not sure if its applicable but some of Lens tracks have actually been overtaken by time and the need for better tracks. The track west to Well 33 area is now the Telecom track, a few hundred metres (in places) south of Lens old track, which is still there and driveable in patches.
Yes, Len would have marvelled, and surely found some joke to describe it.
A remarkable man indeed.

Len is a hero of mine.
He opened so much country with his tracks. The drive to Windy Corner via the Talawanna track or Gary Hwy is a top drive. at the junction there is one of Len's aluminium signs, which he fixed to the lid of a 44 gallon drum using a revolver to 'drill' the holes.
His bush craft was also the stuff of legend, a top bloke.

On my Garmin GPS Tracks4Australia is just 301 meters off, Mapsource is 673m off, now I wonder if Navman has the tracks , ....cough cough

At Woomera Museum, there is (or was) a display of Len's equipement. Included is his work book for doing calculations & reductions of his astrofixes.
Considering he was probably doing this work under the headlights of his Landrover, the style and accuracy of his handwriting is 'beautiful'. He only ever used a pencil- coz ink in a pen would've dried up. Some of the workings are calculated to 8 decimal places!!! with no handheld pocket calculator either.
I have done a navigation course using a sextant, and know what it's like to reduce fixes using pages and pages of celestial tables, and even in a classroom environment the closest I could get was about 5 miles.
Crossing the Anne Beadell Hwy- the SA/WA border fixed by Len is less than 40 feet out to the electronically based fix.

What a book, I must re-read the whole lot. I have a friend at work who has a HUGE interest in Woomera and Emu clayfield, having landed there and stayed a hour or so last year ....wish I had been there. He's got it all online at www.users.pipeline.com.au/burst worth a read