Hi all
Glad to be home again, I was all "holidayed out", but am already planning our next trip.
We did the
the tip with sensational people, namely Viv & Ray from East Buelah (Vic) and a workmate, Bailes, from
Leongatha (Vic) .. Thanks a million guy's
Tyre perssure may, and previous Desert driving experience, may have been the telling factor. No dune was too hard, and as I said in a post from Home Valley Resort, on the
Gibb River Road, 12 psi in the front, 15 psi in the rear, and 12 on the camper. We were never in a rush, and all vehicles just eat up the dunes, and everything else.
Must have done our homework properly, as none of us found the Canning all that hard. It was certainly a challenge, and that Stock Route chucks everything at you, but no problems.
Forget about the fact that we all did sustain some damage, and am rectifying all that, we had a ball.
Damage sustained on our vehicle alone,
1) Long range fuel
tank, cracked welds, and will get replaced next Thursday, (thanks for sensational backup to Kevin at Brown Davis)
2) 2 battery's (both in the mighty Patrol)...Fixed
3) Electric brakes, (I smashed trailer plug, on the Gibb, and patched it, to get home, plus stuffed the magnets. (working on that yesterday & today)
4) Drain plug on bottom of radiator, (basically fell to bits)... have new plug, and will fix when I figure out how th get it out without damaging the bottom
tank
5) Small crack in the side wall of the Track Shak, to be welded up real soon.
Not bad at al considering that we did approx 14,000 kms (plus) on the worst roads in the country.
Caught up with Hairy (finally) and his family, in the Alice, and had Pizza's and a few beers with them, Cheers Guy's, and we will cross paths again.
Great shed mate !.
On the way home we dropped in on Willem, and his lovely Mrs, and thanks for the quick chat, and cuppa guy's, it was great.
The mighty Patrol has been detailed on the inside, and it came up real nice, but the outside will have to wait, for a while, as I am not too sure if I want to see the scratches. Did the full service yesterday, and have packed up 85% of everything.
I have 12 gig of video (that's 3 DVD's maybe) and 2600 pictires, so I am in edit (and fix it) mode, for the next 3 months.
Already have done 1 DVD, but maybe I will rework that one just a little, and include some "Bucky Bloopers"
Cheers
Bucky