to Tyrepower about 7:45 am as they were opening the office. They had 4
BFG AT's in the correct size and they could them before lunch. While
they were working I went to Maccas for breakfast and then wandered
around town for awhile, they had a plague of moths causing havoc in
the news agents store. After a quick walk around the town, I went back
to the tyre shop and waited for them to finish. I got the car back at
11 am, put the second spare back in the roof box and then fueled up
and left around 11:30 am.
The bitumen finished somewhere around Tilmouth, where I should have
refueled but I continued onto Yuendomo where the line up for fuel was
pretty long, so I just kept going. The road wasn't too bad and I could
sit on around 90 km/hr most of the time. Not much traffic or animals
so it was a relatively easy drive. Had to slow down around sunset as I
was driving into the sun and couldn't see much of the road. I kept
going after dark once the spotties had a chance to make a difference,
as I was aiming for the border. But I found a nice little pull off in
the bush and set up camp around 9'ish. Laid the swag out and went to
bed straight away.
I got up early as the sun started coloring the horizon and packed up
quickly after putting one Jerry of diesel into the car. I drove for
about 30 mins and got to the WA border and immediately the road got
better. I kept going past Biliuna and turned off to go to see the
Wolfe Creek meteorite site which was about 20 km off the main road. It
was pretty spectacular looking down into the crater and imaging a big
bit of rock crashing down.
Then it was back to the Tanami track and continuing north until the
bitumen of the Great Northern Road and a nice smooth run into Halls
Creek. I got in around noon and headed straight to the petrol station
and refuelled with 144 litres of diesel costing $265. The fuel economy
for the Tanami track was 12.8 l/100km which I didn't think was too
bad.
I saw Sue at the fuel station and her car had gone into limp mode so
she was a bit unhappy. We headed back to the caravan park and checked
in and did the boring things like washing and shopping. Sue found a
mechanic and he managed to fix the EGR on the car and get it out of
limp mode, so she was very happy. All nine cars had now made it to
Halls Creek and we ended up at the pub for a very good meal before
heading back to camp for an early night in bed before the big trip.
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