Had an early start. We headed into Weipa to see if we could find an alternator. Left Archer River just on 6 am and roughly 2.5 hours later we were there. While the auto-electrical place looked at the alternator we went and did some shopping for food, fuel and camping stuff. There ended up being problems with the alternator that they had, so they stripped an alternator off an old car and we brought that back to Archer River.
We got back at about 2:30 pm and they started working on fitting the alternator. This gave me a chance to have a nice hot shower and a bit of a rest. Around 4'ish it seemed like everything was working, if not at 100 % then at least it was generating electricity. We packed the cars up and headed off a little later. It was only 50 or so kms up the bitumen road to the turn off to Lockhart River but it took an hour or so due to filming of the three cheap cars.
At this stage they wanted more filming on the dirt road, so Dave and I headed off to find a camp for the evening. Just past the Wenlock River crossing (dry at this time of year) we tried a couple of tracks and eventually found the one to the Batavia Goldfield Ruins. There was a great camp spot with no one around. Pretty spectacular ruins with lots of old gold mining equipment about.
Dave and I then sat back and had a drink while we waited for the others to rock in. Once there they had to do some filming as they set up camp. Finally we were able to cook up dinner (butter chicken and rice). Afterwards it was chatting around the camp fire before going to bed with the promise of an early morning for filming.
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