Over $5000 worth of diesel in 7 weeks . Fuel figures for trip .

wait till ya drive out of town a bit!!!

No .

Theo ,
My wifes works , so I have to make reasonably short trips to avoid divorce . Divorce would mean I could afford no diesel !
Willie .

No sympathy here.

Before we both retired we made no thought of doing trips like that - and that was when fuel was less than half the current price. We travelled closer to home so we could spend more time at each stop. You do not see much apart from a white line when travelling at your speed. By the time we had both retired we has covered the eastern half of SA through to QLD - this allowed to spend 7 months and not 7 weeks and spend most of it in the west.

PeteD

PeteD ,

No sympathy - what a tosser .

I did not go over there to go sightseeing , I went to go gold detecting at Cue , Nullagine and Halls Creek .

Hahaha, Willie, that is for people with A T T I T U D E. LOL

Rick ,

Working on your figure of $2.79 saving , it would only have cost you about $ 350 more than me on the trip I just did . Considering the huge difference in the retail , I think you might have made the right decision . Taking it further , at 200,000 on the clock , the diesel would only be ahead $5580 .

I am surprised at those figures . I wonder if I have made a mistake somewhere . Perhaps some maths genius can correct me on this .

I am off to Tibooburra in a couple of weeks for some more gold detecting . Next year the plan is to drive up the Hay R , then continue north up to Laura to look at the cave paintings in that area , then off up the Cape . That's the plan , anyway .

Cheers ,
Willie .

Yes Willie,
At a retail price difference of $13,500 between the V8 Petrol and the 6 Cyl TD at the time....it would a break even point at around 500,000k...given that we have just clocked up our first 100,000K in 4 years....it would take 20 years to reach the break even point.....GASP.

We had a great time of it in the Tibooburra region on our last trip and spent a week at Mt Browne Station.....If quartz was gold you would need a month of sundays to pick it all up with a front end loader.

We didn't get lucky with the gold and found only horse shoe nails and old lead bullets. However, others there did find small nuggets while we were there and also the owners.....Ray & Deb are very friendly folks. Ray has a bit of a go occasionally and found a nugget at the rear of the old homestead...again while we were there. He also has 2 big dry blowers set up near the dam in the paddock before the old homested paddock. That dam has HEAPS of MONSTER YABBIES....

You can camp at the old homestead and there is a camp kitchen and showers and flush toilets and good bore water there too.

Camping is free, but it's $10.00 per day per detector...... You can call into the Milparinka Pub and pay there and get a mud map on the place......they'll even show you a pic of a recent nugget find....they also have a pet goat at the pub....worth a look in the pub lounge at the big fish pond...all those bush pubs are interesting....

I first saw the Split Rock Galleries of Kwinkan Art (Spelling) near Laura in 1989 when I did my second run up to the Cape...they're just beautiful... the Split Rock itself is an amazing sight from the road....looks like it should keep splitting and fall apart.

Keep well Willie...and Pop in if you spot our Bushtracker in Armidale again..
Cheer
Rick

Rick ,

Thanks for the info . It all helps .

Two questions :

Are you allowed to put a yabbie trap in the dam ? If so , I will take one .

Is the goat good looking ?

Thanks ,

Willie

Yeah Willie....I always have 4 Opera House traps and 4 Crab Pots wherever I go....so I used all 4 Opera House traps and as Ray & Deb were socialising when I had finished cooking the Yabbies they hung around for a feed.......I used an old Beef Sausage and left over T-Bones and Lamb Chop Bones......Caught heaps...so wear shoes and cover open wounds near the waters edge for your own safety.

The Goat at the Milparinka Pub was only a couple of weeks old when we were there and so, like ladies when they're young....just adorable and innocent.....however, with the dubious clientele that sometimes frequent those establishments.......it's virtue may well have been compromised by now.......so Practise Safe Goat at Milparinka.

Oh...and don't sweet talk the goat by mentioning my name...Julie was with me so I was well behaved.....on that occasion...

Cheers
Rick