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Originally Posted by ramblingboy42
You bet it does. When we were crossing on the ferry it's gearbox self destructed and we were stranded in the middle. There was no way in hell the ferry driver was getting into the water. We had to cast our fishing lines to drag ropes cross to pull the ferry to shore.
Sure does,we camped at a remote spot on the north side of the river for a few days,not far from the old crossing,a fantastic spot,about 70m from the river.Quote:
Originally Posted by ramblingboy42
We slept in the car both nights.A 4m salty was patrolling the area and we saw it out of the water on the first night.Stepping out from our campsite to it's tracks in the morning,it was 40m away.
We were lucky to see it,i thought i would have a look around with the hand held spotlight about 9pm the first night and spotted it out of the water.
As for crossing the river,one of my brothers has done it a couple of times.Can't get hold of him ATM,it was either in a series three,or his mates old 3 speed patrol.
Edit...It was in neither,it was in another mates MQ SWB patrol.
yeah, I thought so....I notice no one is keeping a lookout while the vehicle is being recovered
Hi All
Alesh a Czech tourist actually took them so the credit must go to him :-}
There is apparently a big saltie that goes from Elliot creek - upstream - to past the old crossing but I haven't see him yet. We took the the boat down for a look everytime we were playing there but after a successful play we aren't going back now for a while.
It is a long crossing and is REALLY SOFT in the centre - not recommended for anyone without a bit of support and of course electronics are a no no
Regards Mark
Friend of mine did it many years ago, have a read of this.
http://www.mr4x4.com.au/index.php/re...he-way-we-were
Couple of crappy pics taken off the movie on the computer of our 1971 trip to the top A bit of a story and some even worse pics if anyone interested
Yep Gary's thoughts X 2.
$130 rtn for an 80mtr ferry ride Vs the damage and danger of getting stuck in the river in any expensive vehicle......... Absolute no Brainer!!!!
When we crossed it in 1980 in our series 3 there was a steel cable that laid across the bottom. When you wanted to cross you would drag the cable behind you and if you got stuck there would be a vehicle at the other end of the cable that could quickly pull you back. You never drove in another vehicles wheel tracks as the sand had been disturbed and you would get caught. The other thing that caught people was they would take all or most of their gear out of the vehicle, this took weight off the wheels as it tended to float. When we were there we camped for or 4 days and saw them all, one day a bloke came along with a little Suzy and small trailer both had wide tyres and it floated downstream we had to tie it up to a tree until we could drag it out. I can remember the approach from the south side when we drove in, the depth and the bow wave we had water 6 inches up the windscreen for about 20 feet but in the middle it was much shallower about 2 ft 6 inches. I recon you could have surfed on the bow that we created. On the north side there was a type of courdroy crossing where the logs went rightangles to the flow, the only problem was that there was a couple of logs missing. A RangeRover got hung up an was sitting on its diffs, Really a mess inside with water flowing through it. There were no snapping handbags then to worry about, there may have been but was not an issue.
Hi,
Crocs started to be a worry abput 1984 I think..
Cheers
Aahh those were the days! Starting to sound like an old fart here. did our first trip to the Cape in 78 in a G60 Patrol. Jardine was a bit of a challenge but a bit of plastic sheet over the bullbar, let the tires down a bit (no guage) and low 2nd gear. Got across and back no problems. We did help pull out a landcruiser who got bogged half way across. The fast flowing water washed all the sand out from under his wheels so by the time we got him hooked up the thing was sitting with the chassis on the sandy bottom. Took 3 vehicles chained together to drag him out. I now cringe to think of the forces involved and the lack of safety precautions back then but as a 21 year old in 1978 none of that stuff applied
Nick