Holiday Awards

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To end the trip Bruce and I have put together our Holiday Awards. So here goes:

Best Coffee - Eucla Road House, runner - up Boab Book Shop Kununurra
Weirdest meal we cooked - Nachos mince with Mashed Potato (what you do when you run out of Nacho chips).
Best Meal we cooked - Garlic butter Crabs in Derby
Best Meal Out - Battered Oysters at Black Pearl in Broome, Caesar Salad with Salt and Pepper Squid in Kununurra (for Bruce). For Amanda - Seafood platter at Whalers Restaurant in Exmouth.

Best Shower - (there were not many so we had to choose carefully) Eighty Mile Beach
Best Camp Ground - Manning Gorge won hands down
Favourite Walk - Mitchell Falls
Worst Walk - Mini Palms walk in the Bungle Bungles.
Worst Road - Mitchell Pateau
Worst Sealed road - was the road between Bungle Bungles and Kununurra, until we hit the Wallaroo to Kadina road.
Worst 4wd Drivers - Pajero
Most Common 4WD - Toyota Landcruiser 100, Prado caught up in a big hurry (well we saw one every day)
Vehicle with most breakdowns - Nissan Patrols

Most Expensive Bread - $4.80 frozen at Drysdale
Most Expensive Fuel - $1.969 Mt Barnett and runner up $1.959 at Drysdale (we heard about $2.18 at Kulumbaru)
Most Creek crossings in 1 day - 23 from Drysdale to Mitchell Falls
Thing we left at home that we needed - instructions for using the Kamper Trailer
Best thing we packed - Ugg Boots
Amount of Alcohol Purchased - 204 tins beer, 24 UDL’s, 12 litres wine
Number of Alcohol free days (where neither of us drank) - 4 (one of those might not count as there was still blood in the alcohol stream from the night before).
Number of books red - too many to mention
Number of KMs travelled - 13,853.4 (that .4 is very important)
Litres of Fuel Used - 2,089.41
Average Litres per 100km - 15.08 (not bad after 19 for the first few days)
Best fuel economy - 13.08 litres per 100km
Total Photos taken - 1,348 (anyone for a slide night).

What worked well for us:
Keeping trip flexible but set a date for the midpoint, so you have an aim.
Choice of tires we made were very good. Wrangler 80/R and BF Goodrich AT’s (but next tire change they will all be BF Goodrich, better tread). Tire pressure was very important for the entire trip. Lower is better on the dirt roads, even down to sand pressures at times.
Performance chip and exhaust changes we made to the car worked very well. Prado became a different vehicle with the ability to rev past 3,000 revs and pass traffic on the highway safely.
Kamper worked very well. Could not have done the trip in a tent.

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