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"SANDY BLIGHT to the SOUTH WEST"

May 2006 Tour Summary

• Departed, Alice Springs - 5th May at 9:30 am
• Arrived, Laverton - 22nd May at 12:20 pm
• 17 days of travel - several late morning starts, several early camps
• One full day off
• Average daily start time = 8:45 am
• Average daily stop time = 3:44 pm

• Total Distance (GPS Odometer) = 2402.8 kms (several kilometres walked)
• Average daily travel = 141 kms
• Most distance travelled in one day = 372 kms
• Least distance travelled in one day = 44 kms

• Camps - Alice Springs "Wintersun" C'van Park, Warakurna Roadhouse, Laverton C'van Park; all other camps were in the bush.

• No flat tyres
• No vehicle trouble

• Two nights of very light rain, (really only a few spots)
• Rockholes that had water - Bungabiddy, Nintititjara, Mangi, Waterfall Gorge, Ryan's Bluff and Sykes Bluff
• Drinking water was obtained from Monkey Bore, Cooper Hills Bore & Bonney's Hut

• Beadell Plaque maintenance & painting on "140 Mile" Plaque & "Halfway" Plaque on the Sandy Blight Junction Road.

Camels, Dingos, Euro's, Goannas, Dugite, 8 x Thorny Devils, Eagles, Hawks, Kestrels, Pied & Grey Butcherbirds, Crows, Magpies, Mynas, Black Faced Wood Swallows, Wagtails, Singing Honeyeaters, Brown Honeyeaters, Pipits, Black Faced Cuckoo-shrikes, Crested Bellbirds, Field Wrens, Red Capped Robins, Topknot Pidgeons, Budgies, Major Mitchell's, Galahs, Cockatiels, Corellas, Ringneck Parrots & Double Barred Finches

• Average Fuel Price = $1.72/Lt (Alice Springs, Warakurna & Warburton)
• Fuel Consumption average - Land Rover TD5, 130 (Radial Tyre) = 12.04 Lts/100kms
                                              Land Rover TD5, 110 (Bias Tyre) = 13.65 Lts/100kms

Connie Beadell & Mick Hutton
Beadell Tours, May 2006

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