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A croc at last only a freshly thou

Winjana gorge camp site one of the best with hot and cold showers

The Pentecost crossing with press corp in attendance

Axels grove and my clothes drying after washing the mud off them

Two riders down and flying doc on the way

The mud the mud the bloody mud

The American and his bike

The end

And then we ran out of road

The very last pic of the BM on its side at the very last creek crossing

The track out to the tip

The jardine ferry with the bikes raring to go

Puncture repair

More bloody rain on the way

Now this is the way to do it nice and light

Dennis surrounded by gre

Telegraph track typical crossing. Apparently this is where all the 4x4boys get bogged. The last bloke tied his winch around a tree and proceeded to winch the tree onto his car.

A magnetic anthill due south

This was the biggest crossing we had to do with a big snotty sand section onthe other side

A section the palmerville road

some more of the palmerville track, this was on any pass section.

Camp site, clear space all round to make it hard for the snakes to sneak up

Green as out on the Burke road? Actually darbar station

A stop under our usual tree

A section of the Burke road? The cloud in the background is the fire that we just rode thro

The bikes the beach and the bar Kurumba

The water the water and me boots still leak

On the road again. I have to give Den 5minutes start cause the dust is so bad

The grgory

The Gregory river crossing

Yep look closely and them there are real Texas long horn cattle

And a very lovely evening was had in the local chatting with other bikers and locals. Viva la france

The mustering coper and strang white things in the sky

Steve the sadists taking a picture of me in pain after my knee popped trying to lift the bike up, god of been worse , it could of been of me laying on the ground unable to get up

Fat cattle we were waiting for, worth the wait just to seethe helicopter and the mustering team including the a little kid who must have been about 12 with all

The main road from the the of the sandover over

Grasing plains on the barkley downs stationCattle cuntry

the bush off the highway, as you can see green and more trees and bush than you would expect.

another bit of the highway,a narrow sandy bit , ok though

a rest stop under a hourly tree, there is one of these trees appears every hour, amazing.

Some of the sandover over highway road, a sandy bit

Only 722 to go

Such a lovely track. Tight windy good gravel and creek crossings. A blast

Artunga on the Binns track east of alice

More of kings

Kings canyon at its best

More of the fink track, note sign to indicate left hand turn coming up. The guys do 160 plus in this race, it's on in about two weeks,bugger.

This is the fink track or part of this

Yet another shady tree - got to stop takin these pics

Nothing like ice on the bike in the mornin

Mt Conner - rode past this in 71 on a Honda 175 heading south to the gunbarrel

Can you see a track here cause I bloody cant

The postcard shot

Aussie style

French style motorcycling touring

The end of the great central corragations

Wouldn't you believe it thwarted again by a locked gate so I glad to ride the last bit on the tar Oh the pain? They must of known I was cummin

At last the Olga's

But no he waited another 100k for a tree again

You think he would have stopped here wouldn't you

And a ballon twice a day

And some rocket junk from the tests

And here is bedalls grader

Roadhouse at warakurna

Yep there it is a micro dish gazebo...a must have wheeler campsite

Now let's see page 56 oil warning light on Oh here it is - take your bike immediately to a BMW dealer - or wait 5 til the oil cools down

That's them Rawlinson ranges out there the first hills we have seen since Collgardie - slime dumps don't count Giles is tucked just below them

At last after 200k Dennis found a tree and stopped for a rest on the way to Giles

Corragations dirt and dust miles of it

Somewhere north of Laverton a roadside stop - those clouds played havoc as when the sun went behind them I couldn't see the track in the rad

The camp fire

don't know what happened to thereat of the car

the camp site at paradise camping

The start of the central highway, and away we go

Laverton pub at its best. We bought a six pack and they only charged us $38. Bargan

You can most see the expr ession 'what are you stopping again for'

Lake Carey and only a 100 to go to Laverton

Mornin on the track, bloody cold and a long wAy to go. The mast howled all night long with the wind. Lots of dew and a full moon to make you think that it's mornin already

Near the end of the track in a little grove of red trees, they look like they have been polished with boot polish

And it means what it says

In the middle of the track is this mail box and wouldn't you know it there is the posties bike to check it

Yep at last I got it, the BM on its side. The bloke next to it is saying 'Bloody well stop pissing around with that thing and give a hand to pick it up you turkey'