I had booked a week's long service leave for Speed Week 2008. Due to the event being postponed/cancelled as
Lake Gairdner is wet, I said to a couple of mates, lets go for a trip anyway. We have a common friend at
Marree so that was the destination. We left the Riverland last Sunday Morning, travelling through Chowilla to Dangalli Conservation Park where we stopped for morning coffee with Mate Osborne the
ranger at Canopus Station. We then continued on through
Lilydale and Panaramatee to
Yunta where we stopped for steak sandwiches at the Roadhouse. Very dry and dusty through that country to
Yunta.
We then moved along quickly;y through
Waukaringa and Frome Downs to the
Gammon Ranges, going into the National Park to Grindells Hut campgound. I cooked T-Bones, mushies, fried spuds and a salad for tea then an early night. Despite sleeping only about 2 feet from my front right tyre, I didn't hear it leaking, but in the morning it was flat. A small, sharp stone was the culprit, it was extracted and a plug fitted and pumped back up, no worries. Monday morning we travelled up to Arkaroola, (as an aside we wanted to go from Grindells Hut through the Park to
Yankaninna, buit there is now a sign saying no access to
Yankaninna without prior permission. ) so from Arkaroola we went north to the Wheal Turner
mine site. We explored a couple of side tracks which was fun and exercised low range through some narrow, rutted and loose rocky tracks. I tore off a rear mudflap here. We then left the Arkaroola Sanctuary and followed a faint track through,
Yankaninna and Mt Searle back to the main road to
Copley, then quickly moving on to
Copley for lunch and fuel. After quick beer at
Lyndhurst with the publican Mr No Personality. we arrived at
Marree in the late afternoon, catching up with our friends. On Tuesday we went to Mungeranie for lunch, I had the opportunity to drive my mates V8 Troopy work car there, was quite impressed with the performance but not with the fuel consumption. We had drinks and lunch there, great hamburgers as tall as a beer can.Image Could Not Be Found
Returning to
Marree my off sider fractured a tyre, two plugs wouldn't seal it so it was changed, another sharp
rock was the culprit. Tea in the
Marree Pub then an early start to come
home Wednesday, travelling through
Hawker,
Peterborough,
Burra and
Morgan. No probs but a funny smell around Peterborogh like
home brew gone wrong, maybe other forumites may know what it was. Great trip only 4 days but around 1800 km, and numerous beers, beats working any time.
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