Starting the Desert Run.

Day 9-1 Hay River Track

Up early this morning and start the packing. Morning routine and when everything was packed off the the servo for fuel $2.72/Lt. Rell picked up a couple of ham and chess croissants 🥐 for morning tea. The we checked out the bore that supplies town and the thermo generated power station. From here to the bakery for bred and coffee, of course. The back to the tourist info centre because we missed it yesterday. Now we are ready to go I think. Just let me check with Rell. Yes we are on our way and guess what it is bitumen all the way out the Big Red. On arrival there were a few cars getting ready to hit the desert. We pulled up and let down the tires. I was concerned about the first few dues after Big Red silent the tires down to less than 18 psi. Went to far on a couple and had to pump them back up a bit. On went the flags and we were ready to go. Bill was the tour lead and the first communication office. He had to do all the radio coms when coming to the dunes. Rell was second coms office for when Bill didn’t get it right or missed a call. Also when she had something to say. The track to Big Red was rough and slow from all the wet weather. Got to Big Red and Bill attacked the east track on the easy side. But he concord Big Red and got the photos. He did come down the harder track. Then it was off the attack the dunes. It was a lot easier than I thought with the camper. So we could take the ties up a bit. Then we had a slow comfortable ride. It was like Queen street mall. There were that many cars and tag a long groups. We must have passed about 30-40 cars. The track was good as far as water was concerned but there was heaps of water everywhere. We crossed Eyre creek at an alternate point. Plenty of water but okay to cross. Had smoko and lunch on the way it was a great day. Slower than we thought so we didn’t make it the the QLD/NT border so we will make that and Popels corner tomorrow. Found a camping place of the track. The wind was blowing a bit so we had to tuck in behind trees. Great day finished off by the campfire. Well done tour guide Bill. By the way Bill is in the front only if we needed to get pulled out of the sand dunes. Good night.Read more