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"CANNING TO CALLAWA"

July/August 2006 Expedition Summary

• Departed, Alice Springs "Wintersun" C'van Park - 22nd July at 10:25 am
• Arrived, Port Hedland - 10th August at 2:27pm
• 20 days of travel - several late morning starts and early afternoon camps
• Average daily start time = 8:17 am
• Average daily stop time = 3:47 pm

• GPS Odometer = 3030 kms (several kilometres walked)
• Average daily travel Off-Road = 190 kms
• Average daily travel Off-Track = 78 kms
• Most distance travelled in one day = 282.5 kms GPS
• Least distance travelled in one day = 45 kms GPS

• Camps - All camps between Alice Springs & Pt Hedland were Bush Camps
• Coldest morning was 3.2 deg C
• Warmest day was 36 deg C

• Drinking water from - Well 33, Rough Leaf Bore, Razor Blade Bore & De Grey River

• 9 flat tyres and two blocked radiators - all repaired

Camels, Bustards, Dingos, Euros, Sand Monitors, Thorny Devils, Eagles, Spotted Harrier, Hawks, Kestrels, Sacred Kingfisher, Grey Butcherbirds, Crows, Magpies, Mynas, Black Faced Wood Swallows, Wagtails, Black Chinned Honeyeater, Singing Honeyeaters, Brown Honeyeaters, Budgies, Quail, Pipits, Black Faced Cuckoo-shrikes, Crested Bellbirds, Crimson Chats, Field Wrens, Red Capped Robins, Topknot Pidgeons, Galahs, Corellas, Finches

• Fuel Prices - Alice Springs = $1.55/Lt
  Kiwirrkurra = $1.80/Lt
  Kunawarritji = $2.90/Lt

• Fuel Consumption average - Land Rover TD5, 130 (BIAS Tyre)
  Off-Road = 12.5 Lts/100kms
  Off-Track = 17 Lts/100kms

Connie Beadell & Mick Hutton
Beadell Tours, August 2006

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