What lies ahead? The ACT Journey

[gp]

We made it to Hyden (Wave Rock) by about 3.30pm today & had a look around the rock. It was well worth the look. We expect to be in Perth tomorrow sometime shortly after lunch.

There's a few pics below from the last couple of days.......



Here's Fred & Candy's message (after we added a bit to it) at Caiguna



The obligatory pic from the start of the nullarbor



Here we all are at the "Bight"



Kathy, Maddy & I at Wave Rock


Perth, here we come!

[surferboy]

It's shocking 

All these Eastern Staters coming over and graffitiing our beautiful state


tutt tutt tutt

 

[gp]

Hello Perth. We've arrived.

[Tailshaft_Tim]

It's been good to see everyone arrive safely today, although very tired from epic minimum day journeys across the Nullabor. So far it's nearly exclusively FC Holdens at the Country Comfort Motel... how far behind are all the FE's?

[freddyc]

We are the good type of graffiti artists. That tape is bloody expensive.

[gp]

Well, after a FANTASTIC weekend in Perth, we're now well on our way home.

Thanks to all in the WA Club for hosting such an excellent event, you can all be very proud of yourselves.

Also Congratulations to Graham & Cathy on their marriage (what a great wedding!).

We departed Perth at 5am on Tuesday & made it to Balladonia for the night (about 1000km), via Kalgoorlie, where we had lunch. As you'll read in one of the other posts, we came across Gary & Bruce having some trouble with the Ambulance at Kambalda. We overtook Graham (?) with the Red panelvan from Mackay, just North of Norseman. Dennis & Lyn were already at Balladonia when we arrived at about 6pm.

This morning we headed off at about 6.30am and travelled about 1000km again to arrive in Ceduna at about 7pm.

Tomorrow we're going to try to get to Mildura (about another 1000km) & then have an easy (!) 800km run to home on Friday.

I'm not sure where Colin (COLT) is as he left Perth later than us. I hope all is going well.

Cheers,

Graham, Kathy & Maddy

[Tailshaft_Tim]

Those are some serious miles guys. Hope you're stopping every two hours for a break!

We travelled approximately 20 miles south to a farm stay near Armadale. The drive really took it out of us, so we've decided to rest up for four to five days with some mates from the Winnebago RV Club.

We spent hours yesterday giving the wagon's red motor a tune-up after having a new muffler installed. We checked and rechecked all (and even replaced some) of the plugs, leads, points, filters, mixture screw and idle and got it running really well. However, (the same as during the Nats), if I am to accelerate hard, upon backing off the red motor continues to cough and splutter to a point where it's almost undriveable. If I turn the engine off and on again, it goes away and if I drive smoothly, it stays away. Weird.

Safe trip guys!

[colt]

Thanks to the WA guys for a fantastic Nats. We all really enjoyed ourselves.

I arrived home at about 3pm this arvo after five days driving. Stopped at Norseman, Nullarbor(this place HAS to be experienced overnight just once!) Pt Augusta and Hay. Thanks to Jim, Phil and Elaine from SA for the company for the hard part of the trip.

 I had some awesome drives, between Burra and Renmark, then the Hay Plains for some reason I couldn't seem to keep my tow car in check. She just wanted to take off, so I gave her her head. Totally awesome!

Tim, you'll tire yourself out at that rate, I'll have a word to Bec for you, we'll have to cut your driving time in half. I bet your carby has some crap in a jet or the bowl. If you can put up with it for four months We'll check it out when you get home.

Colin.

[colt]

I meant to put some stats in the previous post.

Average economy, 17.5 Lt/100km. VE Calais V 6.0LT. Average speed, 91.8 km/h. Total Km's travelled, 7,947.( from Canberra). Fuel used, 1,396 Lts. Running time, 86.41 Hrs. I haven't tallied up the fuel cost, too scary! The dearest fuel price for me was $2.05.7, paid at Balladonia on the return trip, a cent and a half dearer than on the way over.

A great trip, something everyone should do at least once.

Colin.

[Tailshaft_Tim]

Thanks Col (& Keith)

We've got the wagon booked in for a carbie service tomorrow morning in Armadale.

Glad to hear you arrived home safely Col & GP. 8,000km during 86 hours puts it all in perspective. We're on target for arrival home in early August via the northern loop of Australia. Bec worked out the distance and it looks like we'll have to crank it up to an average of 80km/day.

See you at the August Club Meeting!

Cheers, Tim