Hey Ross, your photos and commentary are first class and makes up for us not being there also. Keep them coming.. Cheers JC.
Hey Ross, your photos and commentary are first class and makes up for us not being there also. Keep them coming.. Cheers JC.
I never knew Aus had camels. After a quick search I find out you have the largest herds in the world!
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Josh Esser
Flying SS7
Rotax 914iS
AirMaster Prop
Edmonton, AB, CWL3
Ross,
I'm loving the trip report. It's great seeing you put the new bird to good use. Videos coming after you return?
-- Paul S
Model III SN910
582 IVO Med
HI Kitfoxers.. been a few days but now back in email contact and have we been to some interesting places!
Leaving Halls Creek behind, we tracked for the Berkley River Roadhouse which took us across some pretty amazing and remote country. The roadhouse is a refuge for 4WD'ers doing the remote areas of the Kimberly - the roads are rough and take their toll. The cattle properties are mostly several million acres!
Then on to Kalumburru where we sighted the coast for the first time!
Ross
Mt Beauty, Vic
OZ
Sold to Richard and Scott Taubman in OZ, 2019. Kitfox SS7,Rotax 912is Sport, Airmaster CSP 75" blades.
Landcruiser and Cub off road camper (doesn't get any kudos on this forum!)
Kalumburru is a very remote Aboriginal community and a Mission station that has a interesting history.
http://www.kalumburu.org/
http://www.kalumburumission.org.au/
We stayed at the mission station and the Indigenous people were just fine - a very sad time for them with a funeral for 10 yo girl who had taken her life. A problem that is sadly all too common.
The reason we were up there was to meet up with our old sailing mates, Ray and Barbara. They have cruised this remote coat for 13 years and Ray has discovered a lot of Aboriginal Rock art. He nearly died once on one of his excursions and flying over the area it is very easy to see how you would perish quickly if lost! nWe went on a relatively short walk to look at some of his discoveries and we all used about 3 litres of water each! It is hot and humid and desolate.
we landed on a beach at the mouth of the Drysdale River and pulled the plane up above the high water mark using some planks of plywood to get over the soft sand. We had a good time!
cheers
ross
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Ross
Mt Beauty, Vic
OZ
Sold to Richard and Scott Taubman in OZ, 2019. Kitfox SS7,Rotax 912is Sport, Airmaster CSP 75" blades.
Landcruiser and Cub off road camper (doesn't get any kudos on this forum!)
this morning we left the beach at the Barkley River and flew the Kimberly coast to Kununurra - a wonderful town that services the Ord river scheme.
The red cliffs and gorges were amazing!
Tomorrow we will make our way east into the Northern Territory.
We hear there is snow at home! 34c here and humid! Our plan is to go east to the Stuart Hwy and then tack south past Alice springs and across Lake Eyre.
cheers
ross
Ross
Mt Beauty, Vic
OZ
Sold to Richard and Scott Taubman in OZ, 2019. Kitfox SS7,Rotax 912is Sport, Airmaster CSP 75" blades.
Landcruiser and Cub off road camper (doesn't get any kudos on this forum!)
Just SUPER pics !! You guys are living the dream. Good on you!!
Don
Wow. Just simply amazing.
From Kununarra we headed east to the Stuart Hwy that runs N - S through central Australia. Again remote country, the main point of interest is the way the country changes from the rugged Kimberly region to the flat plains that support huge cattle stations and then back to to the dry and scrubby desert country. Dunmarra does not list having a strip on the charts but we heard that the guy who owns the roadhouse there is a pilot and has put in a strip. So we thought we would check it out as an overnight camp. On the way there we stopped for a leg stretch and cuppa at Moolooloo Station - a pretty rough and neglected strip and we had the underwings well splattered with cow turds after! We make a separate post on Dunmarra.
Ross
Mt Beauty, Vic
OZ
Sold to Richard and Scott Taubman in OZ, 2019. Kitfox SS7,Rotax 912is Sport, Airmaster CSP 75" blades.
Landcruiser and Cub off road camper (doesn't get any kudos on this forum!)
I think it is worth a mention of this little gem. Just North up the Stuart Hwy is the more popular Daly Waters pub and strip but Dunamarra strip is right behind the roadhouse and the owner Garry has a 206 and clearly keen for people to fly in. He was happy for us to taxi through the gates and park right on the camping ground next to the roadhouse. Good showers, great steaks,a premium unleaded fuel and a bar. He has a collection of snakes to look at and water buffalo and cattle wander though the camp site. We even had his dog sleep beside the tent to keep the buffalo from horning the kitfox through the night! A few road trains stop there but surprisingly few through the night - so a good night sleep. Just had to use the plane to drive the cattle off the strip in the morning before taking off.
cheers
r
Ross
Mt Beauty, Vic
OZ
Sold to Richard and Scott Taubman in OZ, 2019. Kitfox SS7,Rotax 912is Sport, Airmaster CSP 75" blades.
Landcruiser and Cub off road camper (doesn't get any kudos on this forum!)