Category: Adventure

Kimberleys Food Prep

The biggest problem that I’m hoping to face on this trip is food. The reality of three and a half weeks on the road with a week between major towns means that a bit of planning is needed.  To this end I’ve grabbed some steaks, snags, and burgers from Harvey Beef and put them into vacuum sealed bags.  This should maximise space and keep everything for as long as possible.

As well as this I’ve packed some Weet Bix and dairy products for breakfast and snacks, and most importantly the milk will help with my Nespresso fix in the morning.

Lunch will be cold cuts, antipasto, and sandwiches on travel days, to be honest anything I can eat whilst driving.

I’m hoping to catch some fish, however given my complete lack of ability so far I’m putting this into the “it might happen, but just in case” basket.  To help here I have a couple of rods and reels, some tackle kits, and a filleting kit.  If anything is caught the vacuum sealer and freezer will help to keep it as fresh as possible, for as long as possible.

Add some junk food to this and I’m good to go.

Karijini

We’ve spent the last few days in Karijini National Park enjoying walks, climbs, and the gorges there.


On the day of arrival we ended up sleeping in the overflow day parking lot as this was the first weekend of school holidays. Whilst there was barely enough room to swing a cat between campsites, this has worked out in my favour as a sparky was in the camp opposite and came over when he saw me fiddling with my dual battery setup. More on this in a separate post, needless to say it worked out extremely well for me, with about an hour of free work. Continue reading “Karijini”

Captains Log

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After a later than planned start due to packing taking a couple of hours longer than I planned, I got on the road.  By this stage Neal and Amber were two hours ahead of me in their truck Brienne, an ugly blond hilux that may be familiar from the #RescueRanger entry.

I made a quick loop North to Joondalup and grabbed some last minute supplies (beer and food) and then started the drive proper, overtaking mining equipment that was going around 30kmh whenever I could. The next stop was Dalwallinu for fuel, where a local kindly pointed out the turn off for Great Northern Highway in the next town along. This was to be my last turn for the day. Continue reading “Captains Log”

Truck Prep – Part 3

New shoes!


Today the truck got some shiny new black shoes. I ended up getting six new tyres and two spare wheel rims, upgrading the steel spare to the standard Ford alloy.  After a bit of a chat with Scott at Richard’s Tyrepower in Osborne Park I’ve ended up going for new Mickey Thomson rubber.  It’s the first time I’ve had Mickeys, however all the online chat says that they’re pretty good.  Hopefully they’ll prove themselves on the road.

The tyres are a 285/70/R17 Baja ATZ P3.

Gibb River Road

I’m about to head off to the Kimberleys in far North WA.  The rough itinerary is to drive from Perth to Karijini, Broome, then onto the Gibb River Road and Mitchell Falls, before heading back via the Bungle Bungles and Wolfe Creek Crater.  All up its about 130 hours of driving covering 8000kms over a three week period, however this is likely to be a bit more as a lot of this is over 4WD tracks.

I’ve added some publicly available photos of where I’m going, hopefully I can add some more that will highlight just how beautiful this part of the world is.

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Karijini National Park Continue reading “Gibb River Road”