Googs update

Submitted: Tuesday, Jun 03, 2003 at 18:42
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Hello Everyone,
Got back this afternoon from a week in the scrub. Had good weather and great camp sites. Googs Track is firm and very corrugated. Many of the south side dunes have been scalloped out badly as drivers use incorrect tyre pressures. Measured one dune at 25 metres in height. I had 5 different maps of the area and each gave me a different distance. Anyway I measured Goog's Track from Ceduna to Malbooma as 208km plus 4% on account my speedo underreads by that amount. Camped one night along the track and one night at Goog's Lake. Saw only 3 vehicles along the track but they did not see us. Ran tyre pressures at 20psi. Drove up the little jump-up at Mt Finke. No, did not climb it for health reasons. Decided to re-inflate tyres to 30psi at Mt Finke thinking that we were out of dune country. I was wrong as the dunes to the north of Mt Finke are quite soft. Two dunes stopped me as I was too lazy to drop the pressures again. The track along the dog fence is quite washed out in places. Road to Tarcoola had some severe bulldust patches.A few things rattled loose and fell of the truck. No fuel at Tarcoola or Kingoonya. Nice run south through station country past lots of woolly nags, to the PAR at Lake Gairdner. (Camped there and went for a short walk on the lake).PAR has extreme bulldust patches. Road corrugated most of the way. After Mt Ive Station(fuel and camping available) the road improved to Iron Knob. Saw 2 vehicles from the end of Googs to Iron Knob.
Googs has some nice Mallee scrub and Black Oaks. A lonesome dingo howled for an hour one night. Birdlife included Mallee Ringneck parrots and a variety of Honeyeaters.
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