Fri 10th - Sat 11th August - Canning Stock Route

Day 26  (Fri 10/8/18)    Durba Springs  -  Georgia Bore

Left around 8am after a lovely rest day in the sun, although today is cloudy and windy so lucked in with the rest day.
Doesn’t take long to meet up with the locals again..  then on to Well 18.

   

   

Then crossing the Tropic of Capricornia…

Well 19 and Well 20.  Well 20 is a 20km diversion and we are in fuel conserve mode, so we all looked at the photo in the book instead..

   

Might be flooded further north but Savoury Creek (Salt water) and Lake Disappointment have very little water.

   

   

   

On to Well 21 and further obstacles on the road.

   

   

Well 22 and then Georgia Bore for a camp this evening.

   

Travelled 180km’s today and passed 5 groups (2 x singles, 2 x 2’s & 1 5 car group) all going the other way.  With this amount of traffic it doesn’t seem so remote.

Day 27  (Sat 11/8/18)    Georgia Bore  -  Well 24  (via Parngurr and  Well 25)

The CSR is still flooded and impassable at Well 25 but we want to have a look at the flooding, thus we plan to drive up to Well 25 and back.  But we need some fuel soon!!  So along with some details we have just found out about a big funeral at Parngurr Aboriginal Community tomorrow and our fuel calculations showing we would be very tight to go up to Well 25 and back before fueling up, we decide to detour the 165km return to Parngurr Aboriginal Community today to get fuel first.  At $3.20/lt and both getting around 180L the hip pocket hurts out in these parts.
Then back to Georgia Bore and along the CSR again towards Well 25…  The water bringing out all the desert flowers…

                    

  

Well 23

   

  

Well 24

   

And it was difficult to fathom how the CSR could possibly be impassable until we arrived…

    

   

    

   

   

Then back to Well 24 to camp.  All alone,  big fire, wine, music and dancing under the stars.

   

  

Travelled 260 km’s today and passed 2 other group coming the other way including the Pilbara recovery team to collect a 4wd with a broken diff between Well 20-21, something like $20000 charge to recover!