Holland Track

Spent 3 Days driving the Holland Track. This track was originally cut by John Holland a Gold prospector in the early 1900’s. We headed off from Hyden after checking out Wave rock and drove for the next 3 days through the Bush. We had mud, water and sand in equal measures along the way.

Two awesome camp sites with decent camp fires and the odd beer. No one got stuck, no one broke any thing. A very enjoyable weekend, Jim i think is still scared from picking up stuff he shouldn’t have. Now all i have to do is clean the car…. it may take some time.

gives you a sense of how big this country is!

On top of Mount Holland, 360 degree views, a whole lot of nothing!

climbing the trig point and drinking beer, seemed an amazing idea at 11pm

us at the start

i was squealling inside

Nearly flattened this little fella, to his dues, he stood his ground and won the game of chicken!

Jim coming down from Mount Holland

Clever people build small walls around the rock all slowly leading to a reservoir to collect water

The plaque at the start showing Props to John Holland who pioneered this track in the early 1900’s

Pleasant to wake up to

View from the Top of Wave Rock in Hyden

the three cars

Pete leading the way

Coming towards Gnomma Hole

my chafing skills. baked potatoes with cheese in the coals, steak, corn on the cob and corguette

Julimar State forest exploring and Learning expensive Lessons

Met up with Will a mate from work and he had a couple of friends along as well, we went to Julimar state forest for an explore with the 4×4. It had been raining a bit during the week and we were expecting it to be wet

One of the guys along with us who I had never met, was hell bent in driving through any water he could find. Looked fun, but potentially very expensive. Normal protocol is that you leave water alone unless you have a snorkel on the car which raises the air intake to roof height so that if you go through water the engine doesn’t suck water into the engine. Unfortunately he didn’t have one.

after about 5 seconds his engine cut out, and the car was stuck and just taking on water everywhere.

Ryan had to jump into the puddle and fish around under water until he found where the recovery point was ( wasn’t pleasant as there was a dead rotting Kangaroo next to it that stunk). We pulled the car out of the hole and assessed the damage.

The end result was that the engine had sucked water right through the engine and was dead as a door nob. We had to tow the car back out 15km to the road where it was picked up the next day on a low loader. the car was a right off. A very expensive mistake. I have now learnt that water and cars don’t mix and might put a snorkel on my car just in case!

Weekend in Guilderton

Spent a lovely weekend up in Guilderton camping next to the Moore River. Was lucky enough to witness the sandbank break and the river empty out into the sea ( apparently it happens 10 ish so times a year). Started as a little trickle and ended up huge all within 2 hours. A great weekend camping with the Staffords, biking, paddling and playing on the beach with the kids.