Made it
5461 km
1269 litres of diesel
83 hrs of driving over seven days
Avg speed of 66 kmh
Diesel burn of 23.5 litres per hundred km
11.5 tonne truck trailer and boat load
C'von to Flying Fish Point Qld
Zero fuck ups, zero breakdowns, zero dramas
Some of the worst roads in Australia were driven
Victoria Hwy NT. Avoid at all costs
Cloncurry to Hughenden was abysmal to say the least.Two and a half hours to cover 113km in one section, beyond fucked. How this is a national highway has got me stumped.
Big shout out to Duralite trailers, they built me a bombproof trailer that shat all over any road conditions even with a 3.8 ton load. No boat damage at all. Even bigger praises to my ancient 88 Mitsubishi who not once complained and just kept on moving us forward, sometimes at 50kph and sometimes at 90kph all dependent on road conditions.
Thank fuck that trip is done and dusted. Never again!.
My wife understands why I clean my rods n reels in the shower....
.thumbnail.jpg "Mahi Mahi 3 - Didn't take long to find the fish!")
Faulkner Family
Posts: 18035
Date Joined: 11/03/08
Good to hear you made it
Good to hear you made it safe and sound
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Coastrunner
Posts: 442
Date Joined: 25/10/14
Well done. Some shit roads.
Agree on the poor state of the roads, going from NT into QLD was shit last time we went through, rough and narrow with not alot of room for oncoming trucks, you did well to get that boat through there.
sea-kem
Posts: 15005
Date Joined: 30/11/09
Nicely done Chris, makes my
Nicely done Chris, makes my yearly trek to Gnarloo look like a walk in the park.
I see I can fly into Cairns where I can drive down to you ;)
Love the West!
Silver Fox
Posts: 1113
Date Joined: 19/06/14
A mission it was.
There needs to be some serious loot spent on the so called national highway. it would be interesting to see how much diesel and time was wasted in getting off the go pedal and getting back up to speed after slooooowing down for shit sections of road. I'd say the Gnaraloo track on its shittiest day would be a far superior road to the Victoria and Barkly highways. The only real difference between the two is one is covered in bitumen and the other is not, the underlying surfaces are just as bad. Hats off to all the brave truck drivers that travel these roads on a regular basis.
My wife understands why I clean my rods n reels in the shower....
NORUN NOFUN
Posts: 1035
Date Joined: 15/08/11
Great work and good to see
Great work and good to see you got there safely.
Character building roads lol
davewillo
Posts: 2410
Date Joined: 08/09/16
Good to see you got there
Good to see you got there without any dramas Chris. Preparation goes a long way and yours was very thorough. How many times do you see people not even get out of the metro area before their wheel bearings go!
PGFC member and lure tragic
Brock O
Posts: 3233
Date Joined: 11/01/08
Gotta be happy with
Gotta be happy with that...except for the roads, thats shit.