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Mount Augustus: What a great picture
Could I be directed to whoever took this photograph- I would like to purchase a print. Thank you.

Great perspective
Glad to see someone going off the beaten path. Sounds like a great place. Thanks for sharing.

Hello, your back again
Great looking stick, even has bends in it. Good Job GMan. Shoes look good too. The interior of St. Franks is still STRIPED. That Cathederal still haunts me. I was always under punishment because of it from them NUNS. They kept giving us ESSAYS on IT for homework. Not populat subject in my opinion, so I always presented a comical insight into its presence on the property. I thought I was writing pretty well & always deserved the big A. Never, only hostile criticism for suggestions eg renaming - St Franks, repainting the interior orange stripes & other unmentionable writings. Not a 100 lines for me but 1400 ???? Why 1400...... Where did Mother Michael dig that up from. Enjoy your New Norcia visit en route to Perth.

"Difficult" tracks
Out of your list of things you might be getting past doing: Birdsville Track, Strezlecki Track, Savannah Way: piece of cake. Nothing like as rough as the Oodnadatta, which you've done. Far West Queensland: no problem if it is dry. If wet, stay in camp, but they tend to close the black soil roads then anyway. Canning Stock Route: a graveyard for anything towed, no matter how tough you think it is. Not that I've done it, but people I know and whose opinions I trust have. One couple in a Cub who ended up sliding sideways down a sand ridge and damaging both the Cub and the vehicle. Fortunately they were in a group with experienced bush mechanics. Go with the tent and leave the van behind.

Marvellous Pen Pictures
Thank you Chris and Graham for the marvellous pen pictures of the Pilbara, and the real photos too. Despite having lived in West Oz for the majority of my life I've never yet -- on 4 wheels -- been any more north than a few kilometres past the sign on the Meeka to Newman road which informs, "You've just passed the 26th parallel North of latitude."

Snow
It got a lot colder than -4 here in Bathurst. There was actually snow in the village, a very rare thing. we missed the snow because we were in Sydney and coming home was slow because the roads were closed art several places in the Blue Mtns and beyond due to snow and ice. A leisurely brekkie in Glenbrook till the road opened at Katoomba; coffee in Blackheath until the road opened at Yetholme, then home through the snowy hills. I can send photos! it was never below 0 by the time we arrived but still pretty. You are currently in the country we travelled last year on the way to Derby. Very pleasant stuff. Last night we met a couple who lived for 2 years in Derby at the end of the last century (just thought i would get that phrase into this comment - not all that long ago really). Love Graham's shorts. Where are the sandals though?

Not a Bad Little Town ....
Cue, by reputation -- or town promotion -- The Queen of the Murchison. Yes, the "Golden Grove Project" is / was the site of Scuddles Ag-Pb-Zn mine, which was well established by late 1991. Why is it now a "Project"?? Enjoy your travels.

Try W.A.G.S
Chis, re Theodore Krakouer, according to Western Australian Genealogical Society Theodore Krakouer was born in Krackow , Poland; gives his convict history, ship arrived on, date of arrival, date of death (1877) etc.. Worth checking on if interested.

lake dunno
I think we saw that lake, but we thought it was called lake jenner-saykwa !

Thesaurus in MS Word
mysterious and shadowy are another couple that the thesaurus in "Word" gave me :)