Road conditions on gary junction & Talawana.

Submitted: Thursday, Jun 14, 2018 at 21:43
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Both have been blessed by the grader gods. Gary Junction is crap out to Papunya, fair to rough to the WA border then smooth as a baby's bum to the Canning & K-Mart. Diesel at KMart is $3.40 a litre. Best to take on a gut full at Kiwirrkurra. New managers at the Kiwirr store. Gary and Sue. Nice people and doing a great job. Diesel $2.60..nice. A bit tedious after Kmart but still OK. Graders were at Gary Junction a week ago heading west. Two graders doing a great job.

Talawana from well 23 is corrugated but from Parrngurr west is like a super highway. FMG is doing a lot of work out that way so roads are supurb. 100kph for the brave (or foolish). Spent a picturesque but stressfull hour priming the fuel system after an air lock between tank transfers out there. Had just finished when a contract diesel mechanic passed by. An hour too late. I cried lol.

Rudall access tracks are tough as guts and resemble the worst of the Canning corrugations, particularly to the north. Have been into Darlsen Pinnacle to find another EO member was brave enough to tackle it. We followed their tracks of some weeks back and man, talk about stones of steel! Totally fearsome drive so well done Mick n Rick.

Troops are mustering at DQB to remember our mate Jaydub. Wall to wall arctic cat diesels. If you're around, drop in. Inaugral Rudall Ball in a few days so currently in Newman picking up party snacks and Princess VikO before heading back.

Safe travels all.

Mick.

''We knew from the experience of well-known travelers that the
trip would doubtless be attended with much hardship.''
Richard Maurice - 1903

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