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 Desert Bug
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| posted on July 4th, 2005 at 11:02 PM |
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Desert Splitty camping and offroading.
G'day,
went camping at the Giddies River (about 50ks from home) on the weekend and had a bit of offroad fun at the same time. We camped down at the waters
edge, about 10 to 15m lower than the surrounding countryside and the track down was quite steep and deeply rutted and after going down very gingerly
on Saturday morning I wondered if I would get it back up again and after one failed attempt (slid back down with brakes locked and slipped into a deep
rut and had the p/s front wheel 600mm off the ground and no one got a pic of this!!!!!) I decided to enjoy the camping and tackle it on Sunday arvo
when I had to when we needed to get out of where we were. I studied the track a few times over the weekend and decided on a plan that would give me
the best traction option and when the time came tackled it and allthough not quite sticking to it I maded it up unaided. We had a great weekend!!!
Cheers, Ian.
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Desert Bug
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| posted on July 4th, 2005 at 11:04 PM |
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Camp site.
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| posted on July 4th, 2005 at 11:04 PM |
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Looks like your still having fun:bounce
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Desert Bug
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| posted on July 4th, 2005 at 11:07 PM |
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This is the water hole we were camping beside, cascades in one end and same at other end.
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| posted on July 4th, 2005 at 11:17 PM |
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Mick, everything done in a Splitty is fun!!! Some other folk dropped in Sunday arvo and said there son had caught a small saltwater croc in this hole
last year and that a lot of people don't come here anymore because of the crocs.
Cheers, Ian.
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| posted on July 4th, 2005 at 11:37 PM |
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Thats unreal.. are you still running the redux boxes?
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| posted on July 5th, 2005 at 09:27 AM |
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Nice one Dad, We'll see you on sunday!
Chewy, all the suspension and running gear is from a late bay.nn[ Edited on 4-7-2005 by PHAT BUG ]
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| posted on July 5th, 2005 at 12:27 PM |
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Ian and Co
Looks like a GREAT way to relax - well except i world worry a bit about HOW i was going to get home. 50kms is a bit of a walk.
BTW - what motor you got in this??
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on July 5th, 2005 at 01:09 PM |
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Bizarre, it's a 1600 twin port with 009, extractors and a 34mm Stromberg of a Holden 186, 1600 Bay box with 205/80x16 All Terrain tyres. Could do
with a 2000lt for this type of activity.
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| posted on July 5th, 2005 at 05:33 PM |
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posted by Desert Bug
Mick, everything done in a Splitty is fun!!! Some other folk dropped in Sunday arvo and said there son had caught a small saltwater croc in this hole
last year and that a lot of people don't come here anymore because of the crocs.
Cheers, Ian.
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Ian, I was just thinking that, I remember seeing crocs at Goyder river I think it was....scary sh!t... looks like you had fun.
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| posted on July 5th, 2005 at 05:34 PM |
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I also liked camping at the Latrum River
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| posted on July 5th, 2005 at 06:02 PM |
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.....I'd so have to swim in that water hole.....buggar about the croc....that's what I'd find SO hard....if it's warm and there water I have to
swim (even cold but the water looks inviting gotta plunge) ...I'd go demented if I couldn't....it's the one thing that I thinnk about when I dream
of going that far Nth...don't know if I could resist the water...guess I'd have to
It looks a great spot...used to luv going away like that so much
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| posted on July 5th, 2005 at 10:58 PM |
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Well I had a swim and survived. We were there for 2 days and didn't see any Crocs, only 1 black snake about 1m long but he disapeared.
It gets a bit exciting up here with the wildlife sometimes, like tonight I went out the back door to hang the washing on the line and here's a huge
Buffalo at the bottom of the steps, frightened crap out of me!!
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| posted on July 5th, 2005 at 11:47 PM |
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.... lol... bet he got a fright as well then...did he wear the washing
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| posted on July 6th, 2005 at 06:12 AM |
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Looks like a lot of fun.
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| posted on July 6th, 2005 at 10:53 PM |
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I think the Buff got a bit of a fright too and moved off about 10m and while Kaye kept the touch on him I hung the washing out.
Yeah, always a lot of fun and everyday is different around here, like today I walked to work with a Dingo (pet one from next door).
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