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| Goozle Member Since: 15 May 2015 Location: Adelaide Posts: 16   
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Fantastic photos and your holiday has bought back great memories of our Kimberley trip 2 years ago. Interesting we also sheared off the bolt holding our roof rack. Like you , we kept weight to a minimum on the corrugated roads. |
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16th Jul 2018 10:44 am |
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| Yorky Bob Member Since: 28 Apr 2015 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 4561  
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Wow |
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7th Aug 2018 7:59 pm |
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| Bobupndown Member Since: 26 Dec 2014 Location: Upside down behind the TV! Posts: 2897 
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Brilliant trip, thanks for sharing the pictures.
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8th Aug 2018 10:42 am |
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| Lightwater Member Since: 21 Aug 2014 Location: Sydney Northern Beaches Posts: 4962 
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Thanks for the comments. It's hard work doing these trips. Need a holiday! Probably the two main things is to pace yourself, try not to travel too far each day. Also work out what you really do NOT need to take with you. You get better at this after a few shorter trips.
Awning mosquito enclosure. You had to be inside by 5:30 in Kakadu as overnight there were millions outside, the noise they all made! Never heard anything like it before, like a white noise drone!
Mosquitoes queuing!
Not only are the crocodiles in Kakadu dangerous! This one was about 2/3 the size of my hand sitting on the mosquito mesh..... outside! A few weeks later we had a smaller one inside the car. Managed to catch it & release well away from the car.
Topend fly & mosquito swat! 
One of two small water crossings into Purnululu NP. The 53 km road takes 2 hours with all the crests, blind corners & poor cambers, & being on guard for oncoming traffic. We had 14 vehicles on the way out, & they do not stick to the 50 kph request at the entrance! Or let their tyres down 10 PSI, that is another whole story!
Gibb River Road river crossing
Sawpit Gorge near Halls Creek
James Price Point
James Price Point dinosaur foot prints at low tide, 8 metre tides here!
LPG roadtrain. Hope they don't go off like on the Italian motorway!
Singe lane bridge between Derby & Broome
It's salt
Lunch at Sandfire, it's about the only place between Broome & Port Hedland, 612 km!
Burrup peninsular
Port Hedland. I spoke to a worker & there are 3000 roadtrain movements on this road every day. 98 wheels on this one. Another conversation about flat tyres, a retired driver got 18 flat tyres in one incident!
Albert Tognolini rest area, stay here before going into Karijini NP if coming down from the north
Karijini Hancock Gorge
Karijini Hamersley Gorge rock formations, the colours in this gorge are amazing.
Karijini
Into the sun
Away from the sun
Outback airstrip
Franciois Peron NP
Redtailed Black Cockatoos
Sunrise
Corrigin dog cemetery
Some previous dog participants in this cemetery
Wave Rock
Salmon Gums
A screw missing due to corrugated roads!
Dust under the black plastic strip
The 2 studs on the body for the boot gas struts needed tightening up. Also blew a lot of dust out of the tiny temperature fan under the steering wheel. The boot hinges, heaps of dust in the two cavities in the bodywork. Cooling the car as quick as possible for the night. We didn't use the free camps noted on wikicamps that much as they are too filthy & had far more flies, due to the filth. We got pretty good at spotting places to sleep for the night like this old gravel pit which was probably last used 10 years ago. We had a spade to bury number twos instead of leaving them lying around!
Nullarbor sunset
Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18 |
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9th Aug 2018 7:32 pm |
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| mikehzz Member Since: 04 Sep 2009 Location: Springwood Posts: 749 
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Great pictures |
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11th Aug 2018 12:43 am |
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Interesting fact for those that don't know, the Royal Flying Doctor Service is almost completely self funded via donations and doesn't charge for its services, they're free. We had a speaker come to our 4wd club and give a talk about them. I'm full of admiration and donate when I can out in the little bush towns and pubs.
| Lightwater Member Since: 21 Aug 2014 Location: Sydney Northern Beaches Posts: 4962
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............Thanks for the comments. Winter is the best time, but up north get it done before July to avoid the worst of the influx of Grey Nomads. Also be more remote in the lower profile National Parks during school holidays. No different to southern Europe!
Some of the best scenery in Australia is simply the night sky. You will look up every night, even more so on a moonless night, there are more starts than you can poke a stick at! If you have binoculars you can clearly see 3 to 4 moons orbiting Jupiter, at the right time of year, which are difficult to see in the city! This photo was with a Canon G9X sat on the car roof on timer for 10 shots. I only stacked 4 of the shots in the attached photo to reduce sensor noise as there was little to gain stacking all 10 photos. ISO 400 F2.0 15 seconds per exposure. It's not the best camera for this sort of work but the Sony sensor has impressively low noise levels. Southern Cross is 1/3 from the left & about 2/5 up from the bottom. The pointers to the Southern Cross bottom left
720 x 480 crop from original 5436 x 3624 photo.
On the third photo of the ten, I was fortunate to record a comet. It is very faint but one can just see the path it took between the two red crosses.
We often slept overnight in gravel pits next to main roads. They do not sound nice but they are practical & often the best place to stop. You see a caravan or two pulled up in one about 4 pm for the end of the day. Often you can find the old disused gravel pits which are overgrow & look quite nice. They are all a maximum of 50 metres from the road unless they are the extra large ones. We also got pretty good at not using the gravel pits marked on wikicamps as these were not as nice. Found a massive one between Wave Rock to Esperance. Also transmission repeater towers are good places & you can get a bit further away from the road. There are basically no cars or trucks through the entire night around Australia in the north, west & southwest. Gravel pit
Aerial view
Disused gravel pit
Gravel pit
Disused gravel pit
Transmission repeater tower camp spot for the night along the endless roads!
General photos: Exmouth
Francios Peron NP
Francios Peron NP Herald Bight Beach
Near the Pinnacles
Sawpit gorge
Purnululu NP
South of Camooweal
Eagle circling for prey from the road!
Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18 |
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