Helena Spring ...Great Sandy Desert

G'day Neville

The 'spring' is a Native Well from ancient times dug out of the limestone hidden beneath the surface of the sand. I dug down until the water seeped through.

The reason for filling it in again is that wildlife may come along and contaminate the water by either dying there (falling in) or fouling the hole with droppings.


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Oh and ummm.... I prefer your Grand Pooh Baah title!

Jo

What would you like to learn?...lol

Ahhh.......the self imposed Title of GPB. Alas too many cheeky insubordinates for now. Will have to go under my nom de plume for the time being :-)


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All of it Willem!
I want to know All of our outback history!
Actually picked up a book the Mailman of the Birdsville Track, the story of Tom Kruse.. it is a great read so far and I have only just started.

Miss Jo

Maybe if you can find a book by Marcia McEwan, 'Great Australian Explorers' ISBN 0 85835 864 6...Bay Books

Tailored for schools but a good read to give you an overall idea of the European Exploration of this country.


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I just spent 100 bucks in the EO bookshop, I bet ya that book is in there!. I do have a list of books added into my wishlist so I remember the titles so I can purchase later on. I'll have to check if the book you mention is added in.
But for now I must go to bed...it's 4.50pm and I start my nightshift tonight at 10pm. Have to be out the door by 9.15pm.
night night! Get back to your posts in the morning.

Alan

As I recall you found the spring under water.

Judith got a bit nervous out there. We camped close to the water. The birds came in for a drink from all directions and that night the dingoes howled( maybe relatives of your dingo...lol)
This place was then as remote and isolated as one could get.

On the way out I made the suggestion about taking the 'other' track back to the CSR but was voted down quite sternly...lol

In '94 I thought that I would never drive the CSR again. Did a section in 2005 and again in 2006 and will be there again in 2009.

I had used up all 7 jerries of Super by the time I got to Well 26 and the fuel gauge was showing EMPTY!! Called up Meeka on the HF to see if there were other travellers on the CSR to help out. There weren't. Luckily fuel gauge was crook and we glided in to Well 23 and our drum of dropped fuel with just 9 litres left in the tank


I am better organised now...lol


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What is the longest distance you would drive in the outback that is between service stations?

Miss Jo

If I average 20/100 with diesel I have a range of 1650km.

Now I might go as high as 27/100 in place and as low as 12/100 in idyllic conditions.

Worst fuel consumtion was this year in the Great Sandy Desert where I used 27.77/100 or 3.6km/litre

I covered 1550km offroad and offtrack once. That was from Tjukarilya Roadhouse on the GCR to David carnegie Road, Eagle Highway, cross country to Calvert Ranges, up the Canning to Well 22(Georgia Bore), along the Tlawana and via Jigalong to Newman. Used up 280 of the 330 useable litres giving 18.08/100. All this towing a bush trailer.

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Yes - it was completely flooded out when I was there, couldn't even see the spring through the water.

Just thinking - Could the track in be the longest dead end track in Australia?

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Peter

Good to hear others have ventured out there.

There was only the Carnegie Historic Expedition sign when we went there.

I must have clocked up the extra 10km in wheelspin...lol

I don't recall the bull rushes.

Peter Vernon put the track in by dragging a railway sleeper behind his Toyota in '92 but by 94 and goos rains the track was overgrown again. Still, the spring needed digging


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