April 2009 Tour Summary
Started Tour, Coober Pedy - 13th April at 9:15 am
Finished Tour, Coober Pedy - 23rd April at 4:04 pm
11 days of travel
An easy day around Maralinga Village and Forward Area
Average daily start time = 8:50 am
Average daily stop time = 3:50 pm
Average daily engine hours = 4.5 hours
GPS Odometer = 1708.3 kms
Average daily travel = 155 kms
Most distance travelled in one day = 289 kms GPS
Least distance travelled in one day = 68.1 kms GPS
Camps - Coober Pedy, Nullarbor Roadhouse, Maralinga for 2 nights & Coober Pedy. All other camps were in the bush.
Usual amount of track clearing on all desert roads
** We were allowed to tour Maralinga Restricted Area for 2 days - a significant privilege. **
Two flat tyres, small shoulder & sidewall stake - repaired
Broken air tank brackets
Fuel tank breather problem
"Waldana" Well, Bringyna Well & "Muckera" rockholes contained water
Plenty of camels, plenty of Dingos, plenty of Thorny Devils, Kangaroos, Wedge Tailed Eagles, Hawks, Kestrels, Pied Butcherbirds, Crows, Magpies, Mynas, Black Faced Wood Swallows, Wagtails, Singing Honeyeaters, Brown Honeyeaters, Pipits, Black Faced Cuckoo-shrikes, Crested Bellbirds, Chiming Wedgebills, Field Wrens, Red Capped Robins, Galahs, Ringneck Parrots, Mulga Parrots (a great many), White Browed Babblers (a great many)
Average Fuel Price = $1.43/Lt (Coober Pedy & Nullarbor)
Fuel Consumption average for Land Rover TD5, 130, fitted with All Steel Radials = 12.14 Lts per 100kms
Fuel consumption average per Hour for Land Rover = 4.05 Lts per hour
Mick Hutton & Connie Sue Beadell
Beadell Tours, 2009
BEADELL TOURS
37 Montebello Drive
SALISBURY
South Australia, 5108
Phone : (08) 8250 2718
Mobile : 0408841447
Email : Beadell Tours
ABN : 40 947 959 130