Is everybody at the beach ?

We spent last 4 days at well known Big Billy campsite in victorias western deserts and there was nobody around.

We had several new things to test under desert conditions including new home made off road trailer, 3 new trail bikes, car configurations,general camping gear
and peoples temperament under heat and sticky flies.

Admittedly it averaged 35 over the long weekend as is summer, but for 4 days over a long weekend not a single vehicle other than those with us camped there.

We mapped out a 48km hard sand track loop circuit and did repeated loops working out fuel consumption, speed and load issues, various radio transmission options and rescue
strategies as preparation for a trail bike simpson crossing mid year.

We even found a new legal impossible hill.

In all that time we only came across 3 other cars and that wasn't till Sunday.

The only visitor was a local farmer from Murrayville who apparently maintains the Big Billy bore. He rode down on his trail bike just checking things out (like us) and amongst a number of interesting things we learnt he claimed that the water was the purest in the entire area and there was plenty to spare.

The campground was clean and a delight to stay at. We also dropped by the Broken Bucket campground to the south and it was in good condition and un-occupied when we passed thru.