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Lightwater



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Kimberley holiday

A few photos on the run! The vertical photos l will turn around later & add text as it is too painful on a small screen!

From Dubbo to Nyngan

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Cold mornings in outback NSW & southern Queensland
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Tambo in Queensland
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Fuel sign south of Winton
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South of Camooweal in Queensland
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Fuel tanker in Katherine
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Kakadu safety signs
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Kakadu mosquitoes. You have to be indoors by 5:30 as there are a million of them. The noise is unbelievable & goes all night.
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Ubirr Kakadu NP
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Cahills Crossing Kakadu NP. You need a permit to cross apart from the water & crocodiles!
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Purnululu NP
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Echidna Chasm Purnululu NP
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Echidna Chasm Purnululu NP
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Purnululu NP
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Overnight halfway between Halls Creek & Fitzroy Crossing so the car would not get damaged!
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Bell Gorge Gibb River Road
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First 50 km of Gibb River Road is sealed then it is corrugations
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Hamersley Gorge Karijini NP
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Road into sun, even later in the day the road almost looks black
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Road away from sun, the surface completely changes colour
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Sunset light on road near James Price Point
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Mining dump truck without its 360 tonne capacity bucket
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Python Pool
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Millstream NP camping area north of Python Pool
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Fixing broken roof rack bolt in Exmouth after clocking up 1200 km of very rough corrugated roads
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New bolt with large washers as spacers & teflon tape on thread for sealing
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Tools, the allen screws on the ARB tyre repair tool came loose. Just as well I had allen keys
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A caravan park in Exmouth
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 Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18


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LR NUT



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Lucky Censored , Very Happy That is one super long drive to get up there. Which way did you go? There's no shortcut.

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They’re some tyres on that excavator - reckon they come in 19 inch? Rolling with laughter

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Judging by the distances involved, the road train tanker may have been Lightwater's 'jerrycan'. Rolling with laughter

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You have a serious ant problem out there, hope they can't fly. Shocked Common sense isn't very common.
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Lightwater



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mikehzz wrote:
Lucky Censored , Very Happy That is one super long drive to get up there. Which way did you go? There's no shortcut.

Orange, Bourke, Winton, Mt Isa, Tennant Creek (cheaper to refuel than Three Ways, & if you are a senior ask for the 3 cent discount per litre in NT), Katherine, Cahill's Crossing, Bungle Bungle, Gibb River Road (distroyed one tyre, one spare to go), Halls Creek, Tunnel Creek, Windjana Gorge, Bell Gorge, Adcock Gorge, Galvin's Gorge, Derby, Broome, James Price Point, Port Hedland, Karijini NP, Millstream NP, Burrup Peninsula, Exmouth, Francois Peron NP.

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Sorry this is upsidedown even though turned around in the camera & is the right way up on the phone. There is dust inside the lens & shooting upsidedown is less work in Photoshop! Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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mikehzz



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So back down to Perth and across the Nullabor? I did a lot of that run back in 2006 in a Subaru Outback. I want to go again now, your pictures are too good. Very Happy PS I killed a couple of tyres too.

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stunning.... absolutely stunning Thumbs Up Bow down

and such varied scenery....

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Lightwater



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It is a very long way here between interesting scenery & we were going to go north & return the same way but come down the east coast. But now it will be back across the Nullabor.

Karijini NP

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Millstream NP

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Dampier, 240 x 120 tonnes carriages of iron ore

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Exmouth

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Francois Peron NP

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4wd Holden Panel Van. Wish I had one of these for my first car!
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Further south

Shell Beach
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Stromatolites
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A Toyota who thought it was not necessary to let tyres down as they only had 100 metres of beach driving!
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Backpacker 20 litre fuel safety

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We have driven about 1200 km on these sort of roads, which eventually caused one of the roof rack bolts to break even though we removed the solar panels from the roof & emptied fuel regularly when not on sealed​ roads to reduce weight up top.
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 Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18

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I couldn't agree more, there is a hell of a lot of dull boring nothing in between the spectacular bits of scenery in WA. I think the same applies to inland Queensland. I could easily spend a month in a 400km radius of Alice Springs though. Plenty to see and do there.

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Lightwater



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We have had 3 punctures, all from screws on our trip. The second 2 we caught early enough because we got TPMS after destroying the first tyre.

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It has been interesting seeing just how much the pressure changes around each corner. We had one cold morning of 4C & the pressure dropped from 25 to 23. It has not taken long to know how much air to put in each tyre to get them all the same when I know that they should be the same.

Still running on the original Conticrosscontacts that came with the car.

25 PSI on a rock.
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Pumping up the tyres takes a bit longer removing & refitting the monitors but with 2 people we are now very efficient. So much so that leaving Francois Peron NP there was a queue for the 2 air hoses that the NP has installed that we used our own.

A 4wd came to use the "third" air supply as we finished so quickly! 30 seconds per corner for the compressor & about a minute for the monitor removal & replacement. I will upgrade the hoses as the 3 compressors are a bit ahead of the rate I can fill the tyres.

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I was a bit nervous getting off Herald Bight beach as the sand was fairly soft & the bottom of the car was on the sand. Planned my escape with the least amount of tight turns & made it out ok. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18

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Hi Lightwater.
There are a couple of Freelander 2 owners in Perth that would like to meet up if you have the time before heading back East.
Any chance of a get-together?

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Lightwater



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We are now heading to Cottesloe Beach, then having a look at Fremantle.


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Is the council tryng to kill business in Fremantle? I thought parking was hopeless in Manly but you can park for 2 hours free, & longer if you have a resident permit. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18


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