Black Point, Western Australia
Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:28 am
Well, Its that time again, the long weekend was upon us, and has left as quick as it came..
But not without a fun side to it, After some discussion with a mate we decided we would push the 400km down the the southern coast of western australia to go wheeling along the coast.
We left right after work thursday night and pushed about 270km to the first camp site. which was jsut for a quick stop over.
My rig is the red Pajero, Mates is the white Navara
A quick stop at the beer store for important goods
Then it was onto the opne road:
Now that was it for night 1, but onto day 2, this was a big day for us.
we started at diamond climbing tree, you can climb 52m to the top, I crapped out at about 14m. but Dan made it halfway.
Dan at the halfway:
I stopped aroudn here. not a fan of heights without my harness from work:
Now the fun began, we only had another 100km of paved roads till the fun began.
time to air down:
Just some flowers:
We had issues getting into black point from our position, as the original way has a bridge out, the way I knew had closed roads and our first track attemp was to deep of ruts as I slid onto the frame and flooded the wagon:
Of course we walked the first puddle, but the second we figured would be fine. we made this mistake once and only once. we ended up walking about 25 of these puddles ranging in length from 10m to 200m and in depth from about .25m to 1.25m with seom deep spots that dunked well over the hood.
And he is bogged:
Some deep water crossings:
At the next puddle I found a turtle. how cool is that:
And that meant that after relocating him away from where we were driving jacki felt it was a good idea to follow him with the camera:
Walking the crossing:
This was the second longest crossing we did, what a fun walk that was. I have a video coming tomorrow night of me doing the crossing but for now jsut photos of dan giving it a shot:
Setting up camp for the next 2 days:
Night time rolled around we had a few beers and enjoyed out selves and cooked stew in the camp oven.
The next day we foudn our selves throwing a line out into the water with no luck. but hey, were on the beach, its win win:
Its all about the whip:
After some fishing I had a few small repairs to do to the wagon, I had my fan playing up and had to do a bit of a bush fix so it would run cool. I have a new one and a water pump on the way as the pump has some bearing play to.:
Dinner that night was stunning with Jackie pulling out all the stops, pickled pork done in the camp oven over 4 hours with potatoes and corn wrapped in foil thrown in the fire, it was an amazing meal:
Fall apart goodness:
On our way out we stopped at black point and had breakfast.
Then before we knew it, the trail was over and we had to head to Perth :(
Here are some water crossings from the trip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qktQCbcD7CA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWER5yFAnDo
But not without a fun side to it, After some discussion with a mate we decided we would push the 400km down the the southern coast of western australia to go wheeling along the coast.
We left right after work thursday night and pushed about 270km to the first camp site. which was jsut for a quick stop over.
My rig is the red Pajero, Mates is the white Navara
A quick stop at the beer store for important goods
Then it was onto the opne road:
Now that was it for night 1, but onto day 2, this was a big day for us.
we started at diamond climbing tree, you can climb 52m to the top, I crapped out at about 14m. but Dan made it halfway.
Dan at the halfway:
I stopped aroudn here. not a fan of heights without my harness from work:
Now the fun began, we only had another 100km of paved roads till the fun began.
time to air down:
Just some flowers:
We had issues getting into black point from our position, as the original way has a bridge out, the way I knew had closed roads and our first track attemp was to deep of ruts as I slid onto the frame and flooded the wagon:
Of course we walked the first puddle, but the second we figured would be fine. we made this mistake once and only once. we ended up walking about 25 of these puddles ranging in length from 10m to 200m and in depth from about .25m to 1.25m with seom deep spots that dunked well over the hood.
And he is bogged:
Some deep water crossings:
At the next puddle I found a turtle. how cool is that:
And that meant that after relocating him away from where we were driving jacki felt it was a good idea to follow him with the camera:
Walking the crossing:
This was the second longest crossing we did, what a fun walk that was. I have a video coming tomorrow night of me doing the crossing but for now jsut photos of dan giving it a shot:
Setting up camp for the next 2 days:
Night time rolled around we had a few beers and enjoyed out selves and cooked stew in the camp oven.
The next day we foudn our selves throwing a line out into the water with no luck. but hey, were on the beach, its win win:
Its all about the whip:
After some fishing I had a few small repairs to do to the wagon, I had my fan playing up and had to do a bit of a bush fix so it would run cool. I have a new one and a water pump on the way as the pump has some bearing play to.:
Dinner that night was stunning with Jackie pulling out all the stops, pickled pork done in the camp oven over 4 hours with potatoes and corn wrapped in foil thrown in the fire, it was an amazing meal:
Fall apart goodness:
On our way out we stopped at black point and had breakfast.
Then before we knew it, the trail was over and we had to head to Perth :(
Here are some water crossings from the trip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qktQCbcD7CA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWER5yFAnDo