Wednesday 24 August 2011

Charnelly  river station - Mt Elizabeth station 130 kms .
Left Mt Hart about about 9.00 am and made good time until we joined the GRR again , corrugations were really rough which once again  meant driving at 10kms per hour for quite a few kilometres.
Finally managed to get to Mt Barnett road house  ( 3 Michelin stars  in tinned goods )
Filled up the car and Jerry cans at a cost of $310 .petrol being $2.05 per litre ! But with no other petrol for 300kms each way its better then having none .
Groceries (bread, bacon baked beans etc $70.00 bloody hell, cheaper to drink the petrol ! ) bought enough to keep us going for the next week.
joined the GRR  and bliss the road until we turned off of for Mt Elizabeth  had been graded and was smooth as a baby's bum , got upto 60kms per hour for a while .
Got to the station which was a 30kms turnoff at about 3.00 pm so about 6 hours to do about 130kms . 
Found a campsite , checked the car and one of the front headlights has come loose. 
Made a friend with one of the station dogs who will not now  leave me alone and keeps bringing me sticks to throw for him , eat your heart out Amy Seymour . 
Day 2
Mt Elizabeth Station 
Very quiet day reading , more hand washing and a bush walk of about 5kms .
Dodgy sausage roll at Mt Barnett yesterday playing havoc with the digestive system ( me being polite)  
Campsite and facilities not as good as promised in the travel books with the gorge about 9.5kms away and speaking to another camper the road is "a car killer " 
 Glad we are only staying the two nights .
Early night tonight  as tomorrow we have about 180 kms to get to Ellenbrae station and we are not sure about the condition of the road.

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