Greeting All
Like many of us that travel our great Nation, I use and rely on real time mapping as in OziExplorer.
During the last few days, we headed up the Tanami Road, and found it no problems at all and was quite comfortable to sit on speeds between 80 - 90 kph.
Those that have driven this road will know that it is just about impossible to pull over and have a
great camp. The first night we were around 160 kilometres north of
Mount Doreen and we're starting to get concerned about where we
camp.
I run 2 moving maps, my HN7 with David's and Michelle
EOTopo and a small notebook using Hema 150k map. At this time of day, the Hema showed nothing, just the Tanami Road, where as the
EOTopo showed and up and coming
gravel pit.
As they say, nothing ventured, nothing gained, so we followed a small track off into the scrub. Around 400 metres in, we came to the most perfect
camp, being flat, small timber nearby for our campfire, and best of all.....clean. Every other wayside stop was full of utter filth,
toilet paper, babies nappies, countless dozens of cans, bottles, old oil containers and human shit....from so called outback travellers.
Our next
great camp thanks to
EOTopo was one of the best on the whole Tanami..
Sturt Creek which was just perfect.
So without those special icons of David's map, it would have been hopeless to find these special spots to
camp.
So a very special thanks to David and Michelle for producing this most valuable travelling aid and for anyone thinking about this map, I can give it the thumbs up and recommend it to any outback traveller.
Cheers from a warm and friendly
Halls Creek
Stephen and Fiona