An interesting day to say the least. It commenced with the ride through the canefields then up the range and on to just outside Collinsville, where we left the tar and headed for the Burdekin. 50km of good dirt, and 50km of goat track, including a council truck that had tipped a load of dirt in a dip, that neither of us saw. Both of us had a bit of a moment as we hit 6-8inches of loose dirt piled on the road, thank gawd the grader had smoothed it out that much. We pulled up then, and when the truckie came past us to do a u-ey Neil heard him on his UHF, saying something like 'these @#%@#'s are taking photos" Neil then replied sorry he couldn't resist, just as the supervisor pulled up, p^%ing himself laughing becuase of the fright Neil gave the truckie.
Two Way Shenanigans With The Truckies
Light entertainment, courtesy of Phillcom who gave us the radios. Mang annoyed himself by loosing his extended side stand, less said about that the better really, his words were on the wrong side of unprintable. We then made it to the spillway. Check the photos, it will save me typing. Well worth the dust.
Burdekin Dam
Where is Mang?
MT WRIGHT
We caught up with 'Crazy' Dave Mackay at Carpetaria Gold's new Mt Wright operation. Dave sorted us with an underground tour, and the company put us up for the night in camp. It was great for us to have a sniff around down the hole, it having been a decent while since either of us had been to a similar underground. We also managed to gather another RFDS testimonial the next morning in camp, which will be on the main site soon - thanks to Dave for singlehandedly sorting us out, and helping us to get our message out in Ravenswood.
LH Drill - Mt WrightPS The old pubs there are ace - go see em if you can. The beer is extremely cold...
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