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We had a wonderful previous evening and pleasant weather here with Rick, Pat, Terry and Helen, great to be off road away from the crowds, although a few backpackers found the spot up the hill a little with their radio!
See a nice video of a campsite and sunset on the Oodnadatta Track…
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The Sandy Blight Junction Road is considered to be one of the most picturesque tracks in outback Australia, and was Beadell's favourite.[4] Its present-day southern terminus is 27 km (17 mi) west of Kaltukatjara (Docker River) and 77 km (48 mi) east of Warakurna Community (Giles).[1] The original start point has been bypassed by more recent construction of the Great Central Road. Beadell placed eleven signposts and one large rock (200 mile mark) at significant points along the road. Most of the signs have since been replaced with replicas, as many original plates have been taken as souvenirs.
At Bungabiddy rockhole (of which there were two pools) he was unable to touch the bottom when in the water, so he presumed that it was deep enough to be permanent water.[2] Beadell may have thought he was the first European to sight this feature, but a notorious dingo bounty hunter named Paddy de Conlay had carved his name and the date "1936" on a rock nearby.[3]
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Enjoy the corrugations on video from here..
Canning Stock Route, WA. Wide vehicles and general information.
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Col asked about restrictions on the CSR for wider vehicles. I can’t answer about official restrictions but on our trip in 2011 using three 100 Series Landcruisers and a Navara there were numerous times in the swales where we had to pull the mirrors in to get through the scrub which grows right up to the side of the track. It is very tough desert scrub too, putting ‘bush pin Stripes’ on all vehicles. A wide-bodied vehicle will have to bulldozer through all of this. Not a good idea. Laurie.
I did the CSR quite a few years ago, in May/June 2009 from South to North. Friends of mine travelled the CSR in 2007 from North to South.
Regarding the questions about wide track vehicles:
The best (and most reliable) information on access with a wide track vehicle and especially on up-to-date track info can usually be get from directly talking to the locals, especially Wiluna Police (08 9981 7024), Halls Creek Police (08 9168 9777), Kunawarritji Community (08 9176 9040) (GREAT people, very helpful, the new store was under construction when we came along in 2009), Glenayle Station (08 9981 2989) and Granite Peak Station (08 9981 2983).
Outback travel Australia clearly states that the CSR section between wells 2 and 5 through to Cunyu station is permanently closed to all vehicles towing trailers AND to wide-track 4WDs like Isuzu light trucks. That is for a good reason, as the track is very narrow in many places along this section if I remember it right. But whatever the very good reason is, fact is that this is private property. So, if you travel through despite the clearly signposted restrictions you commit trespassing – and I am sure that is not what you want to do.
You would also definitely face extreme physical problems by just not fitting through with your vehicle.
I guess that the latter will also be a severe problem in many other locations along the track of the CSR. A contributing factor may be strong growth from the sides of the track, following all that rain in the area. Conditions vary from year to year due to rain or other weather circumstances, but there definitely are narrow sections. Consider that travelling the CSR would add a lot of deep scratches to the nice paint of your Isuzu. If I were the owner of such a nice truck I would not be keen on damaging it – but that is what you are asking for if you tackle the Canning with it. The tyres will be a big issue, due to the limited track width. You would have to go off-track with the tyres in quite a few places, and hitting the bush along the track will cause awful punctures. When travelling the Talawana track to Windy Corner and up the Gary Highway back in 2008, my mate Harry and I met some very nice blokes travelling with an Isuzu truck with trailer. They were about to start work at an exploration camp, and their boss had had a look at the map and had sent them the shortest route. That was not a good idea. I cannot exactly remember how many times we changed tyres on that Isuzu and the big tandem axle trailer, but it was really a lot of times. When we reached the Canning-Papunya-Road, every tyre had needed patching, even the spare tyres. No fun at all. Fun is what you want during your rewarding CSR trip, and not trouble and worries about your vehicle.
I am sure that you and your vehicle are well-prepared, but ask yourself ‘What happens if?’ If you face major mechanical problems, how can you retrieve your vehicle from the CSR? If you need spare parts along the route, can they be obtained in Newman or be taken to Kunawarritji? A smaller vehicle can usually be fixed more easily, especially if is a type of vehicle which is broadly used in the region, like the Toyota Troopy.
I don’t know the power of your Isuzu, but friends of mine had an Isuzu and admitted that theirs was not overpowered. The dunes along the CSR may require more HPs than you have. And going over the dunes by ‘giving it all the revs’ is asking for mechanical trouble.
Talking dunes: We always started very early in the morning. The sand has more moisture then, is less soft and you face less difficulties getting over the dunes. We chose to travel very early in the year (started the last week of May). It is not too cold then in the night, and we were lucky to have just a nice little spray of rain fall in the morning from time to time which added exactly the right moisture to the sand.
Ask yourself what sort of experience you are looking for along the Canning: Is it the challenge and thrill of tackling the Canning with the Isuzu, facing (and hopefully overcoming) all the problems along the way, or is it the rewarding experience of travelling the Canning without too much worries (there will always be some, however!), taking in all its beauty and rich history? If you are after the second, I would consider renting a suitable vehicle from a specialized company like TCC (Travel Car Centre). Swiss owner Bruno and his guys rent out fully equipped Troopys, complete with sturdy roof tent, heaps of accessories and even some spares and a full set of tools and recovery gear. TCC even have at least one Troopy with a long-range tank - 270 litres -but this needs to be booked well in advance. They have vast experience in renting out vehicles for the Canning, and their cars are in superb mechanical condition. I have rented from their company plenty of times (for CSR, Hay River and French Line through the Simpson, Anne Beadell Highway, Gunbarrel with Abandoned Section et al) and have always been highly satisfied. You could pick up the rental Troopy in Perth and drop it in Darwin. Along the way, I would add a nice side trip through the Gregory National Park, beautiful scenery.
If you do not want to miss the comfort of the Isuzu (or if you are dependent on it due to health conditions), what about an alternative route? Given the right weather conditions, the Canning-Papunya Road (also named Gary Junction Highway if I remember it right) is a great track, which is wide enough for the Isuzu and leads through awesome bush scenery. And from Alice Springs to Halls Creek you could continue via the Tanami Track, given that your vehicle has sufficient fuel range, now that Rabbit Flat Roadhouse has been closed.
There is plenty of advice on safety precautions for CSR trips on the web, for instance here: www.thecanningstockroute.com/what_you_are_responsible_for
I would highly recommend to rent an Iridium Satellite Phone (TCC has one or two they rent out together with the Troopys) and to do an advanced first aid course. If you need advice on an advanced remote area first aid kit, I can send you a list of mine. For instance, most people forget to consider a SAM splint. Being prepared for medical emergencies is vital. I am a volunteer medical first responder and firefighter and have visited and talked to many fire/rescue and emergency medical services folks in outback communities, and they told me heaps of very sad stories about people travelling unprepared.
Vehicle fire is not uncommon along those tracks, due to build-up of vegetation under the vehicle. An old coat hanger made of sturdy wire makes a perfect scratching device to clean off spinifex from under the vehicle. I also carry a garden spray as auxiliary fire extinguisher in addition to the normal fire extinguisher. A normal car fire extinguisher is of great help in case of a small liquid fuel fire, but it is insufficient to tackle a spinifex fire under the car. That is when the garden spray comes in handy. Snakebite, though a rare event, is also a danger to be kept in mind. Remember: There are not only Mulga snakes around, but also very nasty Death Adders, which are small and invisible in the spinifex. They don’t flee human presence, and if you accidentally step on one you are in big, big trouble, far from medical help. I always use sturdy boots in combination with Snakeguardz out in the bush (www.snakeguardz.com). Snakeguardz may look ridiculous (the average Aussie can’t stop laughing upon the sight of this strange Gerry with bright orange Snakeguardz over his long pair of camouflage trousers), but better safe than sorry.
Try to put your hands on a copy of Eric and Ronele Gard’s ‘Canning Stock Route’ (e.g. via eBay) and/or the hard to find Australian Geographic Book of the Canning Stock Route, which has one of the best ever-printed maps of the CSR (make sure that the map is still in the book!). These books provide excellent background info on the CSR.
The CSR is for sure one of the best and most rewarding experiences in Australian Outback 4WDing, but do not underestimate the psychological factor and really, carefully select with whom you travel. The tour companies are notorious for rushing the Canning, and you cannot choose the other guys in the group. But even if you travel with friends: Cases are known where best friends or even couples split up during or after a CSR trip. Tension builds up slowly: Some want to start early, others late. Some want to go faster (and get into trouble, the CSR is notorious for vehicle suspension problems!), others want to take it more slowly and get angry about losing time due to mechanical trouble into which the fast ones will run inevitably. Etc. etc.
Make a good plan, which is agreed by everyone but which gives plenty of room for changes and improvisations. Plan where you want to stop and take a day of rest. Durba Springs was my favourite. I did not like Georgia Bore too much, but the fresh water from the pump was a treat, and the toilet there was one of the highlights of the Canning. I have never ever experienced a loo with a belt transport system before, a fascinating piece of Aussie high tech!
Whatever schedule you plan: Do not keep it too tight and put in some spare days. There will be no worries about what to do with the spare days. There are so many great places along the way, for instance a nice side trip to Wolfe Creek Crater (make sure to watch the movie Wolfe Creek beforehand, so that you can really enjoy your night’s sleep there).
Be sure: Something WILL go wrong on the Canning. And cause loss of time. That is when speeding comes in to make up for the lost time, and then the real trouble starts. In any case, avoid speeding on the Canning and always be on the lookout for stupid tourists travelling without a sand flag and even without CB radio. There have been awful head-on-collisions.
Check out the forum at Exploroz.com. There are many highly experienced and helpful folks in this forum, and some of them may have experience with wide track vehicles as well and may be able to answer your questions from own hands-on-experience along the CSR.
Whatever you decide to do (CSR with or without the Isuzu): I wish you all the best for your trip, and stay safe!
Cheers from bl..dy boring Dortmund/Germany, Juergen
I refer my previous article re the Canning Stock Route, in which I gave some old *(2000) information about the Store and Fuel at Kunawarritji Community which has been corrected by Garry this last Westprint Maps email. I regret incorrect information, but that, as I say, was based on information that is now *17 years old.
The store was in basic mode back (some ices and drinks) then, and fuel indeed had to come from Hedland, and one was advised that checking before-hand was a good idea (from road conditions as much as anything). The Community Adviser/Manager (white) was also the Store Manager, and did some mechanical and welding repairs to a traveller’s vehicle whilst I was there. He was friendly and a good man, a mine of information, which is not what I would say about some white "Community Managers" I have met in my years of travels. The Community was also a pleasure to visit. I wish that age and infirmity would allow me to return to the CSR! I had come DOWN the CSR first in 1997, and obtained fuel at Kunawarritji
(I had heard that many travellers who relied on the Capricorn Roadhouse Fuel Dump arrived with empty tanks, so to speak, and because their marked drum had been emptied by ‘person or persons unknown’ they had to do the same to some other traveller. No wonder this had to cease). The time in 2000, I had come across from Hedland (to Kunawarritji) to go UP the CSR, and it was some time after a Cyclone which had blown over the windmill at Well 33, and done some other damage along the Track. Not the best timing.
I had found on both trips that travelling in the early morning was best (slightly damp and cool sand) but as the day heated up (and this was always in Winter) the sand got very loose, and going over dunes was more a hassle. I will always remember those corrugations. They damaged my Jackaroo Diesel, which caused me much trouble as I travelled East on the Gunbarrel Highway from Wiluna later in 2000, after doing a big loop to come back South from exiting the CSR. Still, it was all a memorable trip. Darryl
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A glorious thing it is to live in a tent in the infinite-to waken in the grey of dawn, a good hour before the sun outlines the low ridges of the horizon, and to come out into the bright cool air, and scent the wind blowing across the mulga plains.
My first thought would be to probe the ashes of my open fireplace, where hung my primitive cooking-vessels, in the hope that some embers had remained alight. Before I retired at night, I invariably made a good fire and covered the glowing coals with the soft ash of the jilyeli, having watched my compatriots so cover their turf fires in Ireland.
I would next readjust the stones of the hob to leeward of the morning wind, and set the old Australian billy to boil, while I tidied my tent, and transformed it from bedroom to breakfast-room.
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From Westprint Westprint Friday Five – Friday August 2nd 2019
Reader’s Stories
What do you look for when you travel?
Scenery. Even when it looks like all the same, it’s always changing. While driving there’s not even time to check the map in case you miss something – different grasses, shrubs, trees, hills, ranges, a fenceline, a dead ?, wedgies, ‘roos, emus, camels, horses, of course different breeds and condition of cattle and sheep, when was the last time that creek flowed... all can lead to sensory overload. Discussion on seasonal conditions, different brands of windmills, different types of fences, yards.... how can people say any of it is boring? None of it, ever.
History. We love wandering around old mining towns. Also cemeteries often have lots of information. So much to ponder. Imagining what it was like to live there 100 years ago – water, housing, travel, climatic conditions. Realising how soft we all are these days.
The old buildings. Especially in the WA inland and abandoned mining towns. How they built sometimes lovely structures, all to be left crumbling now.
Meeting people. We try and camp somewhere on our own, but if we can’t, someone will always wander by and end up with a cup of tea and conversation. We often learn their stories, of where they live, where they’re going, what they’ve seen...............
We always shop in the tiny towns for food, fuel, op shops, visit the info centres, maybe tea at the pub, where we might meet a local for a chat.
‘Stop a cocky’. One year in the Rockhampton area we passed paddocks with rows of shrubs. Had no idea, so after a while of guessing, Graham said ‘I’ll stop a cocky’. We finally found one at a paddock gate, stopped and found it was leucaena, which led to questions, and more research when we came home.
Looking for a camp spot. Not often have we had a crook one, or driven further along the road the next morning and found a better one. We live very basically, no frills, no you-beaut gear, and take pride in that. It makes you realise that you don’t need ‘stuff’, both on the road and living at home. And, of course, ‘nature’s TV’ at night. I have a ‘relax indicator’. It could take a few days, but when Graham comments about ‘what’s for tea’ I know we’ve reached it. He couldn’t care less at home.
The job of finding books and information both before we leave, while we’re away, and then when we get back. We keep a journal, which always has more questions to find answers to when we get home, than what we had before we left on the trip.
Someone told us years ago that it’s harder to go away than to stay home. So many things to organise for leaving – bills to be paid, stock sorted and someone to feed and check them, water tanks and pumps sorted, notes for all our neighbours who help.....
And when we drive out the gate we pledge to leave it all behind – except for the phone call from an hour up the road for someone to check that I’ve turned off the gas and locked the back door!
Last year we had a short trip up the dirt roads from Broken Hill, zig-zagging as far as Thargomindah (lots to see and do there), and back. We found an abandoned town, had a wander, a ponder, and found out later the last person left only 15 years ago! The drought was truly awful. We couldn’t help, but now we’ve promised ourselves to go back again to see the country after rain.
So, I guess we’re a mixture of all you Westprint mob, and what you look for when travelling. Graeme and Leanne.
Coffin Bay National Park. South Australia on Eyre Peninsular
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Coffin Bay National Park. South Australia on Eyre Peninsular
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We noticed all the small boats coming in to the small sheltered bay to anchor in the evening.
This was the days before a weather App so we just enjoyed the sight as they gathered.
We set up camp away from the edge of the cliff and the small breeze rising up over the edge. A pleasant sunset and a walk around the dunes and we settled in for a calm evening.
At around midnight the breeze strengthened and the canvas started to flap.
After an hour of listening to the growing noise of the tent, and me going out into the wind blown sand to tie down the awning and check the pegs we settled down.
Soon we awoke again to sand blowing in our faces and an increasing draft rising through the mattress. I had earlier closed the trailer tailgate to stop the wind blowing straight up thru the mattress and fluffing up the doona!
We decided it was time to pack up and get out of here before the tent was destroyed.
We managed to collapse the tent and wrap the cover over it held down by ropes to stop it taking off.
We mostly leave the car connected to the trailer, so it was just a matter of loading all the boxes into the space under the bed, stowing the poles and heading off.
As we drove up the sandy track through the dunes, the wind blew sand along the track with us from behind, it looked like something from "Star Wars" or "The Dune".
At least the engine snorkel was facing down wind!
We returned to a previous night's camp ground, and not too quietly after 2am, we idled in as only a 60 Series Diesel can do!
The tent pegs went in, we shook some sand off the bed and retired until late that morning.
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It was towed to this location for ages by Len's dozer.. see book covering the Sandy Blight Junction Rd.
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In Len Beadell's book Beating about the Bush, he explained how the name of the party was derived. During many kilometres of driving around sand-ridges and spinifex hummocks, the mental picture of a corkscrew kept appearing before his mind's eye, when the word "straight" described what was desired. Suddenly the word "gunbarrel" representing something very straight materialised in his mind, so on return to camp, he announced to his team that they were to be known as the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party. This was well received by the men, and the name passed into folklore.
He later joked, "It didn't matter that when we got to the sandhills, a more suitable name might have been 'The Corkscrew Road Construction Party'".
Beadell's usual method for building roads was to carry out a solo reconnaissance in his Land Rover, bush-bashing through virgin scrub, referring to a magnetic compass for direction, and the vehicle's odometer for distance. When he had determined a feasible path he would return to camp and guide a bulldozer by standing on top of his vehicle while flashing reflected sunlight from a mirror towards the driver. Beadell joked that the bulldozer driver followed the flashing mirror for eight years and never caught it.
If large sandhills intervened, flares fired from a pistol were employed. Some of his reconnaissance forays took many days, hundreds of kilometres, and usually several punctured tyres. He used a theodolite to observe stars, the Sun and the Moon to accurately calculate his position which he termed an "astrofix".
If the path ahead consisted of thick scrub or trees, the bulldozer made the first pass with the blade above ground level to knock the scrub down, then returned with blade lowered to clear the debris. The next pass partially overlapped the first to widen the road.
A grader would then make up to five passes over the freshly cleared track, followed by a "cherry-picker" to remove sticks, roots, or stones by hand.
Beadell had built two roads prior to the formation of the GRCP. The first was from Mabel Creek station (west of Coober Pedy) to Emu Field (Feb-Mar 1953), the second was from Maralinga to Emu Field (Aug-Sep 1955). Bill Lloyd was then a member of his road building team. In November 1955, the first members of the GRCP all hand-picked by Beadell, rendezvoused near Coober Pedy with their vehicles and equipment to start work.
The convoy consisted of three trucks, two Land Rovers, a grader, a bulldozer and several trailers. Led by Len Beadell, the convoy made its way to Victory Downs just over the border in the Northern Territory to begin construction of the Gunbarrel Highway, the first east-west road across central Australia.
The original personnel of the GRCP were:
Len Beadell - Surveyor and Leader
Doug Stoneham - D8 Bulldozer
Scotty Boord - Grader
Bill Lloyd - Supply driver
Rex Flatman - General mechanic
Willy Appleton - Cherry-picker
Paul Christensen - Cook
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LOL not out here....somewhere along the Sandy Blight Track…
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To Quote Daisy Bates... ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bates/daisy/passing/chapter11.html
A glorious thing it is to live in a tent in the infinite-to waken in the grey of dawn, a good hour before the sun outlines the low ridges of the horizon, and to come out into the bright cool air, and scent the wind blowing across the mulga plains.
My first thought would be to probe the ashes of my open fireplace, where hung my primitive cooking-vessels, in the hope that some embers had remained alight. Before I retired at night, I invariably made a good fire and covered the glowing coals with the soft ash of the jilyeli, having watched my compatriots so cover their turf fires in Ireland.
I would next readjust the stones of the hob to leeward of the morning wind, and set the old Australian billy to boil, while I tidied my tent, and transformed it from bedroom to breakfast-room.
see our visit to her memorial... www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4082534500/in/photostream/
Car and trailer are jack-knifed to make a wind-break!..
Google search With #Smoky60Series ... and see all the videos of the across Australia trip here.
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Sandy Blight Junction Road"
On the ABC Local ..666 this am....
ABC Radio are running a program on getting your life back?
Moments in your life that were relaxing moments out of the rat race where you were " In the moment" rather than rushing and absorbed in a career or running a family, dashing to work, taking the kids to sport or filling up the car.
I thought of all the 1/125th sec moments at f5.6 that I have in my photo collection
I could select some of my 33,000 images for an album of "Moments in Life" then realised that 95% or so would be suitable.
At least all in my "Faves by others" would be suitable,
Old black kettle has seen many campfires, the grid was found at Archer R on Cape York, and travels on the roo bar.
The handle on the kettle has since broken in the middle and has now been retired to the garden at the new home...
Move your mouse over the photo for some NOTES!
Hear the sounds of a campsite on the Darling..
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To Quote Daisy Bates... ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bates/daisy/passing/chapter11.html
A glorious thing it is to live in a tent in the infinite-to waken in the grey of dawn, a good hour before the sun outlines the low ridges of the horizon, and to come out into the bright cool air, and scent the wind blowing across the mulga plains.
My first thought would be to probe the ashes of my open fireplace, where hung my primitive cooking-vessels, in the hope that some embers had remained alight. Before I retired at night, I invariably made a good fire and covered the glowing coals with the soft ash of the jilyeli, having watched my compatriots so cover their turf fires in Ireland.
I would next readjust the stones of the hob to leeward of the morning wind, and set the old Australian billy to boil, while I tidied my tent, and transformed it from bedroom to breakfast-room.
see our visit to her memorial... www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4082534500/in/photostream/
We did a trip thru here in 2000 to Coward Springs and Lake Eyre in the HJ to see the Lake, flic.kr/p/cpm8bC
We popped into Emmadale Road House where we noted in the Holden log book, I am reading at the moment, speedo 452,027, that we donated to the ycwcytdftrfds .....
I keep finding log book notes, diary entries, that I would like to note here. Tis trip was filmed on VHS-C, where we ran out of Battery charge down the Delpart Mine! 8-05-00
Photos were on C41.
We had a Little Desert Sunset dinner and beers on the 7th May 2000
Camped at the Lake View Caravan Park, before heading down to the Darling and camping 452546 on Tues 9th in Kinchega NP.
Visited the Burke & Wills Camp near Menindee, then checked out Copi Hollow! Wed 10th. We returned via Quandong, now destroyed, along the 'diamond studded Silver City Highway, caused by mica and windscreen glass in the road surface!
fuel was 89.2c per litre, in Broken Hill.
"Borrowed" here..
www.languagetrainers.com.au/blog/2016/09/do-you-speak-aus...
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This route is not open any more, as it passes through Aboriginal Lands, we did it in a VW Kombi, speedo here @9280 miles, 70m East of Warburton.
#KombiSplity is in the background...
We travelled this route as a means to get from Perth to Canberra, via Normanton, for a new job! The TA helped pay for the trip, I had a Travel Allowance to fly or drive, and it helped pay for a couple of months of detour..
We bought some beautiful artifacts, at the Mission store, www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/2310824155/
We bought 6gals of petrol for $3.30, then continued out on the muddy track, where we got a puncture, much to the amusement of the locals, as the kids watched and laughed as we changed the wheel... (speedo 8807m)
Camped 45mi out of Warburton.
(Notes from trips speedo log book! 01-05-16)
We drove out past Mt Hilda in the Warburton Ranges and continued east along the winding muddy track to these rocks where we camped.
This shot was taken on the return trip after the spark plug disaster! After we turned around from the mud and bog, 279mi from Warburton, N of Giles Ck, on the 09 July 1968.
Just posted this image to Troggonk on Instagram 21/03/19
Speedo notes say we camped at speedo 9182, then the engine fixed itself in the muddy wheel spinning section with me pushing, at 9242. Then we reached Winburn rocks speedo 9280 for a break!
After passing through Warburton again at 9350, we camped at 9436.
Next day we had lunch at 9564.. see in comments below...
I have many more slides to scan of this trip! we drove through accompanied by John Arnold, who ran tours through to Alice Springs in the 60's
This trip was one of his early ones, and had seven or eight retired farmers and a teacher, who it turned out we knew her daughter..
A good story this trip, must blog the diary one day..
See the GDT Great Desert Tracks Hema maps p201 D9 on the Warburton Road to Blackstone (Papulankutja) closed community.
There is an Arnold Creek in this area marked on the GDT maps, if anyone knows if this was named after John, add a note!
We found a tree with a plaque in memory of Bob Collard, who was bogged ahead of us for a time in 1968!
See a later photo from 2011... and some detailed notes added by Mary..
www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/7948857282/in/photostream/
And see the Great Central Road wiki wikitravel.org/en/Gunbarrel_Highway
Mapped here approx on the line between Warburton and corners of WA-NT-SA borders
see p201 in the Hema GDT Atlas & Guide
Weather station at Giles. www.bom.gov.au/australia/radar/info/wa_info.shtml#giles44
The Flickr MAP here fails to show the location or image!!
B3R55-17
Here we are having lunch Picture of it opens in new window.
see the mention of the old Gunbarrel Highway passing here in the 1976 edition p 295 "The Readers Digest Scenic Wonders of Australia"
see maps here..
meridianmaps.com.au/product/gunbarrel-highway/
The section of the Gunbarrrel Highway explored and surveyed by Len Beadell in 1958, is shown on this map complete with GPS readings. It links with the Canning Stock Route and Tanami Track, a circular route popular with many 4WD travellers.
The Gunbarrel Highway is featured because of its popularity but the Great Central Road and several interconnecting tracks within the Gibson Desert are also featured on this map.
Westprint Maps are highly regarded maps for desert areas. All Westprint maps contain notes on history, explorers, points of interest, surrounding flora and fauna and contain various photos of landmarks. The maps are very clear to read and have road distances, rest areas, caravan parks and fuel outlets noted.
This map covers: Great Central Road, Connie Sue Highway, David Carnegie Road, Leonora, Laverton, Glen Ayle Road, Rason Lakes Road, Western part of Anne Beadell Highway, Heather Highway etc.
A lovely spot to camp for a couple of nights before heading south to Wiluna and tackling the Gunbarrel Highway.
It is a pleasant long 4WD track into this spot, as with the other one we checked out nearby!
Afternoon ambient light before sunset!
See note, stitched pano!
I wonder if Lee Atkinson of #ultimateroadtripsaustralia has been here?
Beautiful peaceful evening just out of earshot of the passing traffic a few 100m to the S. With #Smoky60Series ... and the #VelcroPalace Scruby trailer by CampaPack at E775 Princes Hwy, YATTE YATTAH, NSW, 2539 near Milton NSW.
www.aussieweb.com.au/business/campapack+campers/2120906
The video of the drive south from Cook to here… youtu.be/GQ7YmztgKcw
Also see #roundAustraliawithSpelio
To Quote Daisy Bates... ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bates/daisy/passing/chapter11.html
A glorious thing it is to live in a tent in the infinite-to waken in the grey of dawn, a good hour before the sun outlines the low ridges of the horizon, and to come out into the bright cool air, and scent the wind blowing across the mulga plains.
My first thought would be to probe the ashes of my open fireplace, where hung my primitive cooking-vessels, in the hope that some embers had remained alight. Before I retired at night, I invariably made a good fire and covered the glowing coals with the soft ash of the jilyeli, having watched my compatriots so cover their turf fires in Ireland.
I would next readjust the stones of the hob to leeward of the morning wind, and set the old Australian billy to boil, while I tidied my tent, and transformed it from bedroom to breakfast-room.
see our visit to her memorial... www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4082534500/in/photostream/
See p49 in the July 2019 edition of the CMCA Wandererr to read all about traveling with the Danish philosophy of hygge, pronounced 'hoo-gah' which invites you to truly relax by revelling in good company, natural surroundings and locales.
Video of leaving camp and Mary walking along the Eyre Highway on the way to Eucla...
files from Z:\Public\Shared Videos\2009\WA Trip 2009\Eyre Hwy Holland Track DVD-4B
Our videos from here onwards.. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAPczLULhUgyTu0QAV5-I6Ie-H...
To be published in www.wildlifeaustralia.org.au
One of 40 great riverside camping spots along the banks of the Darling River in Kinchega National Park..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinchega_National_Park
Nearest town/city Menindee
Coordinates 32°32′39″S 142°17′50″E
Area 443 km²;
Established October 1, 1967
Managing authoritiesNew South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service
Official site....Kinchega National Park #VelcroPalace
see comments below on the Darling River!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_River
To Quote Daisy Bates... ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bates/daisy/passing/chapter11.html
A glorious thing it is to live in a tent in the infinite-to waken in the grey of dawn, a good hour before the sun outlines the low ridges of the horizon, and to come out into the bright cool air, and scent the wind blowing across the mulga plains.
My first thought would be to probe the ashes of my open fireplace, where hung my primitive cooking-vessels, in the hope that some embers had remained alight. Before I retired at night, I invariably made a good fire and covered the glowing coals with the soft ash of the jilyeli, having watched my compatriots so cover their turf fires in Ireland.
I would next readjust the stones of the hob to leeward of the morning wind, and set the old Australian billy to boil, while I tidied my tent, and transformed it from bedroom to breakfast-room.
see our visit to her memorial... www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4082534500/in/photostream/
Australia has really been through the ringer these last few years, pandemic aside.
Unimaginably large swathes of the country were engulfed in flames, then floods and, before all that, crippling drought. In the oceans, heatwaves are turning coral reefs bone-white and unrecognisable in the northeast and northwest of the continent.
The wounds these disasters have inflicted are deep. People have struggled to find clean water, choked on smoke, shivered in powerless homes, were rendered homeless, and worse.
But consider what they also mean for Indigenous people, who not only live on and love this wide brown land, but also hold an ancient, spiritual connection to it. Environmental disasters threaten their ways of life.
As Euahlayi research associate Bhiamie Williamson writes:
“For Indigenous people, Country is more than a landscape. We tell, and retell, stories of how our Country was made, and we continue to rely upon its resources — food, water, plants and animals — to sustain our ways of life.
"Country also holds much of our heritage, including scarred trees, stone arrangements, petroglyphs, rock art, tools and much more. Indigenous people talk of, and to, Country, as they would another person.”
Heal Country, the theme of this year’s NAIDOC week, doesn’t just apply to natural disasters like floods and fires. It also captures the very-much-unnatural violation of sacred sites, whether it’s blasting away the ancient Juukjan Gorge, or chopping down Djab Wurrung sacred trees.
Rob Williams, a Walgalu-Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri archaeologist, delves into the tragedy of desecrating cultural trees.
Trees, he explains, have always been a point of conflict between colonisers and Indigenous people. And people-tree belief systems are still alive in Aboriginal societies of southeast Australia.
“Trees transcend simple economics and sit at the centre of the sacred — they are sentinels in ceremony, birthing and burials,” he writes.
“Wiradjuri women still perform the ancient birthing ceremony of returning a child’s gural (placenta) to Country. My daughter’s gural was returned to Country and buried at the base of river red gum sapling on the banks of the Marrambidya.
"This is her place now, she is connected to this sapling. It will grow as she grows, and she will return to this spot for the rest of her life.”
Yet, trees like these continue to be razed for economic gain or by out-of-control fires. But what’s more insidious is public indifference. “It’s a sickness that has spread through our nation’s institutions and political systems,” Williams writes.
Indigenous people have always fought to protect their Country. But when their connections, culture and heritage are seen as less important than minerals, “it is often a lonely struggle”.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Bhiamie Williamson describes three practical ways the average Australian can help support the Healing of Country, and fight alongside our First Nations brothers and sisters:
theconversation.cmail20.com/t/ViewEmail/r/DA6ADC4A825ED3E...
P8190034
Night 70 on 19th June 2011
There is insufficient detail on the Flickr map to locate it.. see the GDT Hema maps if you have the time. You certainly will need some time to get to this spot!
Search on Flickr map for Ngaanyatjarra-Giles to locate approx area!
This shot has 62 views, while the one with the story about this nice spot has 7 views. Don't people ever check out the images next door? I often find this! Interesting....
See the shot to the left for the notes about Öffbeat Australia".
@ 24° 46' 06" 128° 46' 38" on the NatMap Raster Map as Malagura Rockhole, but Bungabiddy on the Hema GDT maps p.201
See my updated comments on LandCruisers4eva at
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I didn't have a GPS waypoint for this, so at home now, I just located Mt Ant on my Galileo App (which showed co-ords), and moved N to near the unmarked Pangkupirri RH to get the approx position of Bungabiddy, on the vector map, as the App showed no rockholes.
I emailed the position from Galileo to myself, and opened the email and the KML file in Google Earth, It was way out, so I scrolled N on Google Earth to an image that looked like your Sat view on the Flickr maps, and there it is in glorious 3D.
It seems to correspond to your Flickr map location Sat image, but.. Google Earth shows the Longitude as 24d 39' 24" 128deg 45' 5" for the campsite valley.
The Flickr sat image needs to be zoomed in to the max to see the camp area and track, but then it puts your photo location N of the creek and W of the grass area. The Flickr Sat image changes between Sat acquisition images, not like Google Earth's smooth zoom in..
Did you have a GPS on your camera or use a Garmin or something to fix this photo?
My Memory Map App shows the Bungabiddy RH as Pangkupirri Rockhole in the Walter James Range, this is where the Great Desert Tracks Hema maps place it!
Len Beadell mentions on p189 in "Beating About the Bush", that they, "after clearing Bungabiddy and the Walter James Range, we camped again on our old area by Rebecca Creek, right between the two main range systems", which could put him between Anne Range and Bloods Range at Malagura Rockhole...
Now I have panned Galileo to closer to the co-ords visible at the cursor in Memory Map, zoomed in, or it did as I panned, and the track into the rockhole showed up!
I adjusted the cross-hairs as well as I could in Galileo then sent the KML file to the iPad again, which when opened in Google Earth, zoomed to the grassy campsite..
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This is at the Eastern end of Anne Range. Len camped here at the end of his trek down the Sandy Blight Junction Road, at the end of 800km, "the longest towing operation ever in the history of Central Australia".
This creek flows into the Rebecca Creek where Len, Scotty and Quinny found a water soak near their old camp. See p 189 in "Beating about the Bush"
Next, further north, night we had a bush camp off road at 24d 10' 22.5" 128d 35' 15'5"
Giles Met station..
To Quote Daisy Bates... ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bates/daisy/passing/chapter11.html
A glorious thing it is to live in a tent in the infinite-to waken in the grey of dawn, a good hour before the sun outlines the low ridges of the horizon, and to come out into the bright cool air, and scent the wind blowing across the mulga plains.
My first thought would be to probe the ashes of my open fireplace, where hung my primitive cooking-vessels, in the hope that some embers had remained alight. Before I retired at night, I invariably made a good fire and covered the glowing coals with the soft ash of the jilyeli, having watched my compatriots so cover their turf fires in Ireland.
I would next readjust the stones of the hob to leeward of the morning wind, and set the old Australian billy to boil, while I tidied my tent, and transformed it from bedroom to breakfast-room.
see our visit to her memorial... www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4082534500/in/photostream/
The Sandy Blight Junction Road is considered to be one of the most picturesque tracks in outback Australia, and was Beadell's favourite.[4] Its present-day southern terminus is 27 km (17 mi) west of Kaltukatjara (Docker River) and 77 km (48 mi) east of Warakurna Community (Giles).[1] The original start point has been bypassed by more recent construction of the Great Central Road. Beadell placed eleven signposts and one large rock (200 mile mark) at significant points along the road. Most of the signs have since been replaced with replicas, as many original plates have been taken as souvenirs.
At Bungabiddy rockhole (of which there were two pools) he was unable to touch the bottom when in the water, so he presumed that it was deep enough to be permanent water.[2] Beadell may have thought he was the first European to sight this feature, but a notorious dingo bounty hunter named Paddy de Conlay had carved his name and the date "1936" on a rock nearby.[3]
see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Blight_Junction_Road
The Sandy Blight Junction Road is considered to be one of the most picturesque tracks in outback Australia, and was Beadell's favourite.[4] Its present-day southern terminus is 27 km (17 mi) west of Kaltukatjara (Docker River) and 77 km (48 mi) east of Warakurna Community (Giles).[1] The original start point has been bypassed by more recent construction of the Great Central Road. Beadell placed eleven signposts and one large rock (200 mile mark) at significant points along the road. Most of the signs have since been replaced with replicas, as many original plates have been taken as souvenirs.
At Bungabiddy rockhole (of which there were two pools) he was unable to touch the bottom when in the water, so he presumed that it was deep enough to be permanent water.[2] Beadell may have thought he was the first European to sight this feature, but a notorious dingo bounty hunter named Paddy de Conlay had carved his name and the date "1936" on a rock nearby.[3]
The Sandy Blight Junction Road is considered to be one of the most picturesque tracks in outback Australia, and was Beadell's favourite.[4] Its present-day southern terminus is 27 km (17 mi) west of Kaltukatjara (Docker River) and 77 km (48 mi) east of Warakurna Community (Giles).[1] The original start point has been bypassed by more recent construction of the Great Central Road. Beadell placed eleven signposts and one large rock (200 mile mark) at significant points along the road. Most of the signs have since been replaced with replicas, as many original plates have been taken as souvenirs.
At Bungabiddy rockhole (of which there were two pools) he was unable to touch the bottom when in the water, so he presumed that it was deep enough to be permanent water.[2] Beadell may have thought he was the first European to sight this feature, but a notorious dingo bounty hunter named Paddy de Conlay had carved his name and the date "1936" on a rock nearby.[3]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Blight_Junction_Road
from
several images stitched together in a panorama of a pleasant grassy camp site.
Also see #roundAustraliawithSpelio
The VW Van is just behind our Cruiser..
The road is described in "Beating About the Bush", which we were given in 2005 by Di and George, little thinking that we would be out here in a few years following the exact road Len constructed with the Gunbarrel Construction Party in the 1950s. With great care he surveyed the route over 800 km down to Giles, then after a series of mishaps; had to tow his grader and van with the dozer at 3 kmph along his newly constructed road in "the longest towing operation ever in the history of Australia" back to Giles for repairs.
We followed his route north in the opposite direction. He describes in the book how he thought of future travelers, and planned the route through some of the most interesting and attractive country in the center.
The original joined image file is 14892pixels wide, you can pan around full screen with the Zoom.it image.
Must try this krpano.com/
See it here with Zoomit... [ www.zoom.it ]
using the full image from here farm7.staticflickr.com/6021/6203461228_beb0dd6840_o.jpg
13 images camp site panorama IMG_9653_stitch
Map location of road..
The morning sunrise amongst the red gums is in the flood plain of the Cooper on the way from Marree to Birdsville.
In the river bed of the Cooper, ( #lovethiscreek ) with the #VelcroPalace and #Smoky60Series, which flows from the Sturt Stony Desert to Lake Eyre to the west.
See the great Memory-Map App
Now I use www.ExplorOz.com Traveller App….
Between Etadunna and north to Mulka and the Mungeranie Pub!
Here is the new punt or ferry!
flic.kr/p/93VkTS
See the video on Youtube.. youtu.be/1I4yjf8mPrs
See reference link here to exploration expeditions into the Simpson Desert.
Bush outback safari links.
Just heard a caller into Macca mentioning possible good floods into the Eyre Basin during 2017
Seen on the small hill or sand dune nearby..
monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/landscape/settlement/disp...
See many links here for history and reference of the CGG and development of the French Line, desert, Page family deaths, etc
Canvas ONLY from
www.waxcon.com.au/dynaproofed-outback-rugged-canvas-tents...
Listen to the views of Cub trailers about Chinese imports and the terrible Chinese canvas..
zoom around the map here share.garmin.com/stragglingstu
Read about camping with crocodiles..
Story from Steve Parish about photographing nature and Warburton Creek, not far from here...
www.steveparish-natureconnect.com.au/creativity/
See the track in 1968 in a Kombi.. www.flickr.com/photos/17271078@N02/26030889910/
... #roundAustraliawithSpelio
See the videos of this trip on YouTube..
see some videos around the Flinders to the outback and the Centre of Australia! here!
Watch in 720 or 1080p
01 First 5 days to Kinchega youtu.be/uSn83Zbr_3Q
02 to BH Yunta Arkaroola youtu.be/ckQNC5y5ooc
03 Arkaroola Umberatane road, Leigh Creek Marree pub youtu.be/uSn83Zbr_3Q
03a Rough exit track west from Arkaroola SA youtu.be/AcIybjnt__A
04 4WDs Coward Springs to Oodnadatta youtu.be/hzSmMQSY7o4
05 Oodnadatta Eringa Lambert Centre youtu.be/QGFLmBc8QJ0
05a Eringa camp scenes youtu.be/SPRT1jmlSes
05b Macca at Eringa waterhole youtu.be/CyBdfGX2190
05c 4WD Finke to Lambert Centre youtu.be/KGHUjrPc3dc
06 Lambert Centre to Old Andado youtu.be/2cr4A_4vlxg
07 31st Old Andado to Mt Dare youtu.be/6TYGbvR5lKU
08 New Crown Eringa Alberga Ck Oodnadatta Marree youtu.be/48SRYDkyDcw
08a Alberga Creek muddy crossing.wmv
09 Marree Cooper Creek Tippipilia Birdsville Track
10 Tippiplia Creek to Birdsville Big Red youtu.be/1I4yjf8mPrs
10a Sunset on Big Red youtu.be/ghEiVfoBB2s
10b Wrecking Big Red youtu.be/e6Zeurts94g
11 Birdsville to Windorah youtu.be/e3wEOiz719g
12 Windorah to Jundah youtu.be/EWpoaiFfl1k
13 Sheep Shenanigans Pt 1 youtu.be/yiLvPwO2QC0
14 Sheep Shenanigans Pt 2 youtu.be/OhxVx0fFzSs
15 Welford NP-Cunnamulla youtu.be/vYl2-AZNA8w
16 Cunnamulla Bourke Nyngan Home.m2ts youtu.be/vYl2-AZNA8w
See my Mapped images, around the World and #roundAustraliawithSpelio.... the-map-group.top/people/spelio/
"Wine... the intellectual part of the meal."
--- Alexandre Dumas, 1873
#beerswineandwhisky is used fortral and wine..
the #winebeersandwhisky tag covers all!
a wine bottle from Sam's Creek, Sauvignon blanc
Great spot for a few nights with a good wine and Whisky. Mapped approx only..
There are many wine-related sites on Flickr..
www.flickr.com/groups/turkishwines/pool/
wine labels or whatever!! And we have another few 100 soaked off the bottles and filed in a large folder....
74 views of the Album, 17-11-20
P8190017 With a roof rack of firewood...
To Quote Daisy Bates... ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bates/daisy/passing/chapter11.html
A glorious thing it is to live in a tent in the infinite-to waken in the grey of dawn, a good hour before the sun outlines the low ridges of the horizon, and to come out into the bright cool air, and scent the wind blowing across the mulga plains.
My first thought would be to probe the ashes of my open fireplace, where hung my primitive cooking-vessels, in the hope that some embers had remained alight. Before I retired at night, I invariably made a good fire and covered the glowing coals with the soft ash of the jilyeli, having watched my compatriots so cover their turf fires in Ireland.
I would next readjust the stones of the hob to leeward of the morning wind, and set the old Australian billy to boil, while I tidied my tent, and transformed it from bedroom to breakfast-room.
see our visit to her memorial... www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4082534500/in/photostream/
Australia has really been through the ringer these last few years, pandemic aside.
Unimaginably large swathes of the country were engulfed in flames, then floods and, before all that, crippling drought. In the oceans, heatwaves are turning coral reefs bone-white and unrecognisable in the northeast and northwest of the continent.
The wounds these disasters have inflicted are deep. People have struggled to find clean water, choked on smoke, shivered in powerless homes, were rendered homeless, and worse.
But consider what they also mean for Indigenous people, who not only live on and love this wide brown land, but also hold an ancient, spiritual connection to it. Environmental disasters threaten their ways of life.
As Euahlayi research associate Bhiamie Williamson writes:
“For Indigenous people, Country is more than a landscape. We tell, and retell, stories of how our Country was made, and we continue to rely upon its resources — food, water, plants and animals — to sustain our ways of life.
"Country also holds much of our heritage, including scarred trees, stone arrangements, petroglyphs, rock art, tools and much more. Indigenous people talk of, and to, Country, as they would another person.”
Heal Country, the theme of this year’s NAIDOC week, doesn’t just apply to natural disasters like floods and fires. It also captures the very-much-unnatural violation of sacred sites, whether it’s blasting away the ancient Juukjan Gorge, or chopping down Djab Wurrung sacred trees.
Rob Williams, a Walgalu-Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri archaeologist, delves into the tragedy of desecrating cultural trees.
Trees, he explains, have always been a point of conflict between colonisers and Indigenous people. And people-tree belief systems are still alive in Aboriginal societies of southeast Australia.
“Trees transcend simple economics and sit at the centre of the sacred — they are sentinels in ceremony, birthing and burials,” he writes.
“Wiradjuri women still perform the ancient birthing ceremony of returning a child’s gural (placenta) to Country. My daughter’s gural was returned to Country and buried at the base of river red gum sapling on the banks of the Marrambidya.
"This is her place now, she is connected to this sapling. It will grow as she grows, and she will return to this spot for the rest of her life.”
Yet, trees like these continue to be razed for economic gain or by out-of-control fires. But what’s more insidious is public indifference. “It’s a sickness that has spread through our nation’s institutions and political systems,” Williams writes.
Indigenous people have always fought to protect their Country. But when their connections, culture and heritage are seen as less important than minerals, “it is often a lonely struggle”.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Bhiamie Williamson describes three practical ways the average Australian can help support the Healing of Country, and fight alongside our First Nations brothers and sisters:
theconversation.cmail20.com/t/ViewEmail/r/DA6ADC4A825ED3E...
Down stream from Menindee Lakes
Near the end of the www.lumieres.com.au/darling-river-touring.html
32 25.214' s, 142 22.732'e maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=-32.420245,142.378875&a...
Camp01 on GPS
maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=-32.420254,142.378864&a...
Camp00 on GPS nearby
maps.google.com/maps?q=32+24.892'+s,+142+22.518'e&hl=...
P8190023 See also reference here..
www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/camping-and-accommodation/ca...
To Quote Daisy Bates... ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bates/daisy/passing/chapter11.html
A glorious thing it is to live in a tent in the infinite-to waken in the grey of dawn, a good hour before the sun outlines the low ridges of the horizon, and to come out into the bright cool air, and scent the wind blowing across the mulga plains.
My first thought would be to probe the ashes of my open fireplace, where hung my primitive cooking-vessels, in the hope that some embers had remained alight. Before I retired at night, I invariably made a good fire and covered the glowing coals with the soft ash of the jilyeli, having watched my compatriots so cover their turf fires in Ireland.
I would next readjust the stones of the hob to leeward of the morning wind, and set the old Australian billy to boil, while I tidied my tent, and transformed it from bedroom to breakfast-room.
see our visit to her memorial... www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4082534500/in/photostream/
top of this photo used at Group Banner image at
www.flickr.com/groups/camping_spots_of_the_world/
Just off the Gary Junction Rd.
No NRMA or NT road service out here, they do not come out on dirt roads!!
Mar 2014. With #Smoky60Series ...
The Sandy Blight Junction Road is considered to be one of the most picturesque tracks in outback Australia, and was Beadell's favourite.[4] Its present-day southern terminus is 27 km (17 mi) west of Kaltukatjara (Docker River) and 77 km (48 mi) east of Warakurna Community (Giles).[1] The original start point has been bypassed by more recent construction of the Great Central Road. Beadell placed eleven signposts and one large rock (200 mile mark) at significant points along the road. Most of the signs have since been replaced with replicas, as many original plates have been taken as souvenirs.
At Bungabiddy rockhole (of which there were two pools) he was unable to touch the bottom when in the water, so he presumed that it was deep enough to be permanent water.[2] Beadell may have thought he was the first European to sight this feature, but a notorious dingo bounty hunter named Paddy de Conlay had carved his name and the date "1936" on a rock nearby.[3]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Blight_Junction_Road
from