Pajero on the Canning Stock Route

Hi Joe

Although we live in Mulan, near Lake Gregory (Paruku), my wife is a full blood aboriginal woman. Her mother is one of the oldest living Martu people, and they are nbot trying to close the region for the rason that you have mentioned. It is because of the disrespect being shown to some areas that should not be traversed by non-lore people.

We have been through the area on numerous occasions, and removed a lot more rubbish than what you see there normally. It is obvious that when people cannot be seen, they care a lot less, but that luckily is only a minority.

Marc

Motherhen,

Good point about what if it was my vehicle or a vehicle in a convey that I was leading.

Planning, preparation and experience have got me through in the past and hopefully in the future.

Apart from the Pajero, the other 3 vehicles on the CSR were burnt as a result of spinifex build up causing a fire.

Planning to check under the vehicle after driving through spinifex grass, the taller the grass the more often the need to check and vehicles with under body protection are more at risk.
Having a wire hook and a spray bottle filled with soapy water in case of build up.
Having detergent mixed with water in the spray bottle acts as a wetting agent.

The Pajero had a burnt out clutch, that would be driver error.

Having the vehicle removed from the CSR would be a project that would require a lot of planning and expense.

The vehicles would be too hard to remove in one piece but if they were cut and placed on trailer, to keep the weight down, then it would be possible.
Who would do this and who would pay for it would be harder to organize.

Wayne

hi motherhen
you are correct
3 were spinifex fires and the other was a crutch failure

there has been a drum muster in the past and so why not a vehicle muster but the logistics is much harder for the wrecks
drums pack on a lot easier

it all is interesting to look at and judge but if we sit back and say that all this must be cleaned up and moved, exactly why is it, is it because it looks bad, it is in the road of "something", not "safe", if we move it from one location to another we have not solved the problem, just re-located it, if "environmental" is the reason then what a HUGH waste of fuel it would be to move them .....
Go and live out there for a few years, live on one of the communitys, even driving up to them you notice the rubbish gets worse the closer you get..... the car bodies on the side of the road increase ....
The BIGGEST mistake we as "outsiders" have made was to turn up, try to "save" the communitys and start all these big clean-ups, now we have this awful culture of them leaving rubbish everyware as it gets all cleaned up by us suckers, in these communitys the ratio of services and "outside help" per person is far greater than citys as we seem to send in the "do-gooders" that think they will save the world and just make it far worse, watch all the promises over the next few weeks just for votes .....
The answer ??? i really dont know, education is all that is left that will work.

A couple of years back I saw a caravan on the side of the Gibb River Road with a broken spring or something. The owner had left a big sign saying, "Please don't touch our van, we've gone for parts". I don't know how long it had been there but it had been stripped almost bare.

Rob.

Great Central Road has something like 100 wrecks in 100 km stretch, and on a road where removal of wrecks would be more practical than on the CSR.

Mh

Agree with Robin & Motherhen

If someone wants to clean up all wrecks there are much more accessible wrecks along the Tanami Road and numerous other places that should keep people busy for years to come.

Just an observation from last month on the CSR. It appears all the wrecks on the Canning were once petrol engined vehicles.

Another point of note is that most travellers pick up what rubbish is there. Some of this seems to accidentally fall off vehicles, some is deliberately dumped. Unfortunately as one approaches the more populated parts the amount of rubbish increases dramatically. Also the well 23 fuel dump seems to collect an awful lot of rubbish.

Flynnie

Gr8 call Robin