Re thread 49026 Instalmen 2 'The Tanami'

After spending a couple of days around Kings Canyon and Alice we set off on the Tanami leaving Alice mid afternoon. The first part of the Tanami was bitumen which made our first run very comfortable, we camped at Tilmouth Well that night, was quite happy with that camp, would recommend it. The next day we continued heading West, by this time we were on gravel Rd which we considered fairly rough in patches, but that part of the road was taking quite a lot of traffic at the time as there was an annual sports carnival being held at Yeudumu community and people were coming from far and wide to attend. After we had passed that community the road did improve some. We stopped off and checked out Renehans Bore and felt that it would be a good place as a free camp for anyone who was there at the correct time. Then we came across Rabbit Flats and I fell in love with the place, it reminded me of Cocklebiddy on the Nullarbor in the early '60s and the Gentleman behind the counter (grill) we could have listened to his stories all day but alas we had to move on. Off we went again and all was well, then we hit the WA border, well the road that was quite reasonable suddenly turned to continued corrugations so the speed had to be dropped, we were going along fine until we heard this different knocking sound, (up til then we could account for every knock, rattle or scraping noise we could hear) we stopped and a check found that the rubber bushes at the top of the back right shockie had gone, maintenance on the side of the road soon fixed that and we were on our way again, we were headed for Wolfe Creek camp area, the road had not got any better so it was dark by the time we arrived there. The next day we headed for Halls Creek and then Kununurra.
For those interested, the WA side of the Tanami in our opinion was very rough and from what we could tell, hasn't been graded for some time, it was certainly the roughest road that we had travelled so far.