Final Day on the Hay River Track

Day 13-5 Hay River Track

Up again this morning to the bloody cold weather. Anyway it makes you get up and go quicker to warm up. A bit late getting away Rell had to wash her hair and we had to put in fuel. Still got away at 9:15am. The people that were at the camp site were still packing up when we left. Not long out we ran into a tag a long tour heading in the opposite direction. They told us we should be right to get out today but they said there was about 70K’s of bloody terrible 😣 corrugations on the last big of the track. So for we went and checked out the Tropic of Capricorn, couple of different signs here. Then onto Barton Camp. This place was run by the Aboriginals and they have shut it down and walked away. Supposable for repairs and upgrade but looks like they have walked away. Place is a mess. The camp area would be pretty good if someone put some work into it. We checked out the Mountain before the camp as well. We caught up we a couple of cars at Batton Hill they were towing campers and had just come in. He told me the track was badly corrugated and he had cooked his shockies on his camper. We off we went to cover the last 70-80K’s and yes it was as bad as they said. Within the first 10K’s I had cooked two shockies on the camper. Nothing to be done until we get out. The roof rack had shaken loose and there were rattled everywhere. After repairs it was off again but this time at around 20K’s an hour. What a slow trip but at least the car stayed together. We could speed up in some places but not many. We eventually got to the Plenty Hwy and stayed at the camping area near Jervious Stn. Cool again to night so is spent by the fire.Read more