Friday, 21 April 2023

Outback Trip - Day 6

A lazy dinner last night.  I used the 12V oven to reheat six of Jan's home made sausage rolls. 

This morning the convoy continued southeast and for several kilometres we travelled through open desert

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Eventually we reached the junction of Lake Rason Track and the Connie Sue Track.  The latter runs north-south between Warburton, on the Great Central Road and the Trans-Australian Railway Access Road.  Legendary outback surveyor Len Beadell named the track after his daughter.

I was quite surprised with the condition of the Connie Sue having anticipated another overgrown goat track that would be heavily corrugated and twisting.  It was quite the reverse.  A wide and almost straight unsealed road albeit with some corrugations and bulldust.  We managed speeds of 90km/h before finding a decent campsite at 4pm.

Later that afternoon one of the group gave other interested drivers a lesson on how to break the bead on a tyre using the vehicle jack before removing and replacing the tyre. 

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It appears I might have been the only person in the group travelling with a proper bead breaker tool and tyre levers.

That evening I attempted to take some night photos around the campfire.

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