FINALLY ON THE ANNE BEADELL

DAY: 9
Up at 5 am….John had a few sweats during the night but well this AM...packed up…caught up with the last of the Polos and slack…after my readings….got my toast for brekky and helped John pack the Camper……Bill all organised and ready to go…
Went to the Store which on the net it said it was open but only the Servo side was….managed to get x2 bottles of Gaviscon only they were very large bottles and eat $23 ea. an expensive buy..,,

Then finally we set off…

Stop 1. Was Point Kidman….a marker on the Rocky range outcrop of the Hwy….the raid is great for dirt, smooth and easy driving…lulling us before the rugged section…
Stop 2 was the Breakaways area…we found 2 spots you could camp at…I thought I saw camel footprints, but decided after the 2nd camp site it was cows fatter all…🥲…Saw some stunning coloured Western Australian Parrots…the 2nd Breakaways spot had amazing rock structures and a small cave...Bill explored the hill tops in this area as well as Kidman Lookout…

Sheryl and Dave are way ahead of us….
Sadly there are Gas Pipelines marking our great country even down here...grubs taking over the country everywhere in the outback areas…

Stop 3 M/tea @ Yamarna Homestead only had a cattle yard…Tank with a huge modern generator near by for the Goldfield camp that was we think up the road…next to the tank was a great old Drilling Rig…..the boys Bill and John….both got out their drones…heaps of exploration sites with heaps of bags of samples….

Stop 4 A look at Point Sunday we walked the hill and we saw caves…and we saw Len Beadell Surveyors Post…plus the most exciting part was a kangaroo that had been killed and all that was left was his entails that had poop in it….

Stop 5 Met up with Sheryl and Dave at Old Yeo Homestead….. what a great stop…I thought we were staying here for the night…but Sheryl wants us to move on….so we had a look at all the treasures….A quaint little house you can’t go in now getting to run down, half tank dog pens, hand pump well very updated. A tank shower room with a bucket shower above to clean off….very neat around, some of the old fence heavy steel posts….even a loo with lots of loo paper on hand very clean it looks well Maintained…
Had our lunch here…even used The Vans microwave to heat mine, made John sandwich’s…
Then we headed off to see the Lake system…Sheryl and Dave were the only ones to actually find it and it did have water in it….we took the road to Sandalwood Camp area which cross lake beds a number of them, all dry…but a bit damp on some of the road patch’s…Bill had taken another track to the Lake ended up turning around and come and joined up with us…we then chose to do the old track to Bishop Riley’s Pulpit….wow what a trip…very slow going over 42ks….a lot of very tight and scratchy areas…John did amazing in these tight spots...even had our side mirrors pushed in by tight trees so before we lost them John would pull up for me to pull mine in…constant changing diverse scenery with different plants, flat lake beds, Salt bush’s… taller trees with hairy like bark..I was a bit like being on the Canning with the constant change of vegetation….heaps of burnt out plains….some trees you can see will never return, but all the gums are re-sprouting with new fresh leaves an amazing tree it’s resilience…. It was a hard but fascinating drive it took us 2 hours to do it, making it out to the Main track just before 4.30pm arriving at Bishop Riley’s Pulpit just before sunset on the Western side of the rock bringing out its features…very neat camp area….there is a path to the top of the peak…I’ll do it tomorrow before we go….a campfire 🔥 area already set out so we used that…
Emotionally I felt I hit the wall yesterday, I felt very down and just heavy emotionally…after 6-7 weeks of going none stop with people heavy issues with those people, plus’s go, go, go packing, unpacking, repacking, packing travel, OS travel in Aust my body has died 1,000’s of ks this past month and half I am just tried…Sheryl headed to bed around 7.15 I went to bed around 8pm again only a wash...once upon a time I wouldn’t do that now I am getting to old and too tired to be bothered.
But a great start to our Anne Beadell trek so far, all I had hoped it would be and more..Read more