Up relatively early, packed up and had a cereal breakfast. Headed off to refuel at around 8 am and a bit of filming happened. Dave and I inherited the red camper trailer as they didn't want to tow it down the Telegraph Track. We are going to take the Gunshot bypass and meet them there for lunch. We went down to Palm Creek to watch the cars get through there. It is quite different to when I went through 9 or so years ago, the entrance is much steeper, there was no water and the exits were much more cut up.
The entrance was dealt with quickly and efficiently and then the cars had to work out which was the best way out. The left track which was very steep with deep holes and off camber slopes or apparently easier looking one that was still steep with rutted out holes and loads of bull dust. They ended up choosing the easier looking one and two got up, one very easily, with the third having to winch itself up. The two support vehicles chose a different path each but both still required winching. I was able to watch all this from the comfort of my chair set up in a nice shady spot.
Dave and I headed back to the main PDR and stopped in at the roadhouse for awhile and then headed north. We turned off onto the Gunshot Bypass road and followed that past the Rangers station and down onto the Telegraph track. We back tracked to Gunshot Creek and found a shady place to park while we walked down to look at the crossing. Once again it had changed drastically in the nine years since I had been there with lots of new entrances and exits having been created.
Then Dave noticed that he was missing a spotty and the other one was very loose. A photo we took earlier at the roadhouse showed both spotys still attached.
After tightening up the loose one and checking over the car, another car came in from the north. It was a Patrol from the NT and they had come to play around at the crossing. While talking to them they remembered seeing a spotty on the road so Dave unhitched the trailer and headed back to look.
I then had a relaxing time sitting in a chair in the creek waiting for everyone to arrive and Dave and the other cars all arrived back a bit after fiveish. It took them awhile to get organised to film and the light was disappearing so that got the first car down the very steep entrance by winching it down. The winch block shattered just as the car got down and it couldn't drive out as the angle was too steep, so they had to bring another car around to get it out. They eventually got the other cars down the easier slopes but it was well and truely dark by then. We set up the Weber car in the creek to bbq some sausages so dinner was had.
We sat around in the creek for awhile chatting before everyone headed off to bed for the evening. Most camped down near the water but Dave and I drove back up to the camping area and setup for the evening and it was very pleasant under the trees.
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