Km 257 Total
Fuel at Halls
Creek $1.75
Rocked out of Wolfe Creek after one last look at this
amazing phenomenon. 20 kms ordinary track, though not as bad as we’d been led
to expect, and we’re back on the Tanami road for the last 100km of the
1050km!!!! Just short of the Halls Creek turn off, we passed the north end of
the Canning Stock Route (CSR). I kid Mandy about turning left and heading
across the CSR. L
was the reply. We go straight ahead onto Bitumen for the first time in almost
600km and head north into Halls Creek. It’s a Sunday, and the Supermarket has a
Road Train parked out the front and about 40 staff unpacking everything! As it
was only lunch time we decide to head to Mabel Downs and stay the night just
outside Purnululu NP rather than drive that 100km tomorrow.
We find a large area in the main street of Halls Gap that
has a large rtee and park ourselves under it. Mandy opted out of finishing her
lunch and the kids feed it to some birds. Seems they called in some mates and
soon there are 30+ Black Tailed Kites swooping in and picking the bread out of
the air as they throw it in up in the air. Amazing experience!
Lob at Mabel Downs Station “caravan park” which is really
part of the station set aside for tourist activites. They have 4x4 coach (read 4x4
trucks with bus bodies on the back), fixed wing and helicopter flights. Because
you can only take High Clearance 4x4 and single axle Off Road “Towable Units”
(read Trailer/Caravan) many Greyus Nomadicus park their 500ft Triaxle
Caravan/Palaces and take the coach tour ($250 pp!!!!!!) or some people leave
their sensible caravans and take their 4x4’s into the park. It’s a long way for
a day trip (52km of windy dirt track, no worse than a Victorian High country
track) and there is easily 2 days worth of stuff to see, but 3 would be
better. As we arrived about 1100, we had the extra half day to set up, look
around and generally get a feel for the place.
Unfortunately, 5 car loads of bogans arrived with a pose of
feral kids. Loud and obnoxious. Firewood is brought in, and cant be collected
within the NP. Bogans inc inched all the firewood from both fireplaces. Karma
people
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