Thread: Meet my 90, and share the adventure.

After the festivities from the night before, it turned out to be a nice day with minimal wind and clear skies.
Cue epic camp breakfast! The campfire was stoked, and the cast iron hitn the coals. There were sausages, bacon, beans, toast and the leftovers stew from the night before which was mized with eggs to make a shakshouka hybrid concoction which tasted pretty damn good.

My Coleman dual fuel burner I have was pitted against my old man's kelly kettle stove, with the 1.5L water boiling challenge.
The stakes were high.
The stage was set...
And my little coleman burner won!
The stovetop espresso maker was also used, and did a great job of keeping the caffiene up to everyone.


After breaking camp and a quick swim to cool down, it was time to head back, but not before getting a happy snap of this poor old landy which was parked up in the long grass near the reserve. To all those abandoned landies out there, I salute you.



We left our mark at the camp site- a Cairn of rocks supporting a hand carved staff adorned with a vertrebrae from an unknown animal, wrapped in twine and festooned with feathers my brother found. Why not I guess.
Other than that, we left the place clean, unlike half the other travellers who left their rubbish in their fires, and cans and bottles everywhere. I'm sure someone will scratch their head trying to work out why someone left a staff with a bone on it at their camp. Pagan sacrifice perhaps?!


The drive home was somewhat uneventful, however I was on the lookout for trackt to take the landy down. I managed to take a quick detour via Baxters Ridge Trail, just south of the Carson's Pioneer Lookout on the thunderbolts way.
It was a very scenic dense natural forest, well kept roads.


Suddenly, a wild roadblock appears!

You use hatchet, and loese 57HP.

You use low range, and a little bit of the loud pedal...it is highly effective.
You gain +10 experience.

Jokes aside, this part of the state would be worth an explore in the future.
There is a LOT of bush out this way, plenty of state forests, and I reckon with enough time up your sleeve, there would be lots of forest to see and places to roll out the swag. Along the Barnard, Nowendoc or Manning Rivers.

So all in all, it was a good time. I'd recommend all of you lot who have landies in the shed collecing spiders, to get out there and use them! You won't regret it!

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Why not just swap the bracket for a hinge?

This would work, but I'd think it might be a bit too flexible.
1) It would probably increase the number of times the mudflap passes thru the exhaust path, and at a lower speed (this would negate the function of the mud flap too)
2) The bracket (where it bends) is angled, so it would cock the mudflaps to the inside when it bends - might look silly?
3) Still susceptible to being plucked off on a rock- and maybe even moreso than the stock design due to increased flexibility?

That's all just my initial thoughts, but I'm always keen for someone to give it a crack, and report their findings!

Nice one Mitch.

Baxters Ridge I think is the track which leads down to Barrakee Nat Pk, and there's good camping on the Nowendoc there.

Lauraine and I tried to get to the Falls via the River a couple of years ago, but the River was up then. Must go back and try again.

Perry

I'm sure it would get you in the general vacinity, if not head east on Reserve rd, further north along the thunderbolts way.
I've been studying the google maps, but it's tricky as the adventure you set out to do can be cut really short by a locked gate somewhere or misrepresented info on the satellite image. And the topo maps you get are often no better (if not outdated).

And from Nat Pks, on one of the tracks on the nth east near the falls, there is a rather recalcitrant resident who will refuse entry even though it's public access. I was advised to not go there

Some light reading for those who are so inclined.

Inclosed Land protection act

And now for something completely different:

SIX Maps

Download the browser app, and you get topo maps and sattellite imagery in one page. Can even narow down to property boundaries etc if needed.

It has started...
Spent a couple of hours this afternoon in the fading sunlight doing some soldering...
...extending the rear tail light wiring
...more details in the next installment.

Stay tuned!