Talawana Track thru to Well 23 (Capricorn Roadhouse) - a short video

Many a thread on the Capricorn Roadhouse on EO Phil. Fuel is ordered and paid for through the Capricorn Roadhouse in Newman. They drop it off as near to your anticipated date of arrival at Well 23. Each drum has your name written on the top.

They had a big problem with theft some years ago and stopped delivering. The problem was believed to have been addressed with the local communities but this year we arrived to find four drums that had been delivered only a few days before, missing. Now I can't say for sure where they went but one doesn't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure it out especially with fuel prices at $4.00 per litre in some communities.

What the impact of this will be on future deliveries to the CSR I cannot say but it would be a shame if people were forced to carry extra or travel off route to communities for fuel.

Merry Xmas, Mick

Cheers Mick. Thanks for the follow up. I guess you were lucky that the next people didn't just help themselves to your fuel. It'd set up a whole chain reaction.
Not good really as someone could get left stranded.
Have a great season mate.

All the best

Phill

Could be ugly mate but Capricorn are pretty good at sorting out a response. As it was there was a drum there for Kenny Maidment (of Well reconstruction fame) so they were able to use that. Goes to show the value of a satphone out there.

I trust you noted Jaydub's home made 44 gallon Tanami pump. Now that was a blessing. Compressed air saved a hell of a lot of arm power lol.

Cheers Mick

Anthony, I get in trouble for the time I spend on the computer now lol. Nope I'll just plod along lol.

A safe and happy Xmas to you & yours.

Mick

Merry Xmas Phil. Wild horses couldn't keep me away mate. Very much looking forward to sharing a red and some tall tales around a western deserts fire real soon.

Cheers

Mick.

Mate you know that you only get chocolates for camel removal and with two Oka's I thought you would have been fighting for the opportunity to drag those beasties off the track. Larry reckons you could have cleared a few dead branches as well. He copped a hole or two in the big Michies on the Mog.

Trust you and Pauline will have a happy Xmas and all the best for 2013. Hopefully we'll catch up somewhere out back in 2013.

Mick and Vikk.

Amen brother, here's to 2013. Yep just spoke with J & S and it's a balmy -2C where they are. Trust you and Gilly and family have a great Xmas day and a happy new year. See you soon.

Mick and Vikk.

Cheers Johnno. All the best to you and Jules for xmas mate. See you in 2013.

Mick and Vikk

Geoff,

I'm using a Sony HDx handicam that's now 3 years old. It's on a camera mount, 50mm arm and handlebar mount from RAM systems. The handlebar mount is fixed to the Jesus handle on the A Pillar and adjusted to be out of the drivers way (as per photo). All of these bits and bobs can be ordered through GPSOz

The RAM parts I got are listed below (straight from the gps oz website);

Camera mount base RAM-B-202A $15
3 inch arm RAM-B-201 $18
Clutch/brake clamp base RAM-B-309-1 $18.
When I got this part it had this "Handlebar spacer for smaller bars (1/2 inch) RAP-319 $3" already in it.





Cheers Mick

JB I'm using good old Windows Movie Maker. I'm using 1920 x1080 HD clips and then "Publishing" it as an Mpeg4 720 HD clip. The finished product is then uploaded to Vimeo for hosting.

Here's to 2013 travels.

Mick