Rudall River Nat Pk

G'day..

Hanging Rock to Skull Springs Road.

It took me 6 hours and 39 minutes to drive the 194 kilometres.
This included stops at Meeting Gorge, Tchukardine Pool and Pearana Rockhole and getting lost east of Bocrabee Hill and near Enacheddone Creek.

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Alan

G'day Alan

I wondered if you were lurking somewhere :-)

Sounds like you were in a hurry to get to the shop again (refer a previous film clip)...LOL


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Willem - correct!!! The two cans of Jim Beam I consumed at the Nullagine Pub were much enjoyed - having had my last warm vodka some weeks prior at a certain well in the Gibson...

Here's a couple of vids of the current topic:





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Alan

See, I told you you'd get that video of Meeting Gorge in there somewhere! Alan, what was the overall condition of the Track across the grassy plains area? Did you see the rock cairn on its western edge? Also is the track discernable across the soil plain west of the rocky knob? How was it west from Bocrabee to the Xing?

Might go in that way this year.

Cheers Mick

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Hi Mick,

The condition of the track is good along the grassy plain, though as Phil says it gets messy after rain. Not dissimilar to the Black Soil Plains of Queensland. - However, it is at the western end of this plain that I became Geographically Challenged, and spent quite a nevous half-hour criss-crossing through the bush trying to find the track again. Right here somewhere I think is the outcrops you speak of, and I saw none of these excepting a general view from the east of the plain.

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The track from Bocrabee Hill west is also good. I took the Mount Hodgson route and shortly west of that hill the track gets discernably better.

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Cheers
Alan

Alan,

Thanks for the clips. Most interesting - the donkeys were in good nick, eh?

By way of background, last year I was on the Talawana and we had a vehicle breakdown so severe that it had to be trailered out. We had planned to go north to the large National Park you are "in". That deviation was consequently aborted.

Now for a question about phoenetics/pronunciation.

Some of us said the R word (Rudall) one way, and others of us said his name quite differently.

Me, as you know, I'm a South Aussie, and therefore I said
"Roo-dahl".

is it "Rue-dill" ?

or Rudd-all ?

or something else?

thanks & cheers

Rick Moore

"The Rudall River was named by Frank Hann after the surveyor and explorer William Frederick Rudall (pronounced Roo-dal, with stress on the second syllable). To the Aboriginal people who live in this remote desert region, it is called Karlamilyi. The first European explorations of the Rudall River area itself came in 1896-97, when surveyor William Frederick Rudall led a party of men in search of George Jones and Charles Wells, the missing men from the Calvert Expedition. Rudall made three trips through the present park area, during which he named several of its features -- including Mt Hanging RockConnaughton, after one of the members of the search party, and Hanging Rock-or recorded their Aboriginal names. At that time, Rudall noted that there was good gold-bearing land, but that the remoteness and sheer inhospitality of the area made it uneconomical to investigate further. He crossed the river several times and in his account of the search, written a few years later, he commented that:

"The Rudall River is a series of deep gulches 8-10 feet between banks and altogether is about 200 yards wide. There must be large quantities of water run down it in a rainy season."

Rudall River Info


Cheers Mick.

Hi Rick - haven't heard from you for a while.

Yes, the donkeys seem pretty well fed, a very fertile area I think.

I normally pronouced Rudall, as Roo-dool. However Mick is probably right with his answer, though the Dept. of Environment and Conservation, from which Mick quoted (I think) does not give its sources.

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Alan

Bugger!! That track looks too easy. Might have to go look somewhere else to explore....LOL



Vimeo.....Wot speed x 2 ???...hahahahaha


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