Tilmouth well to Billiluna
Distance traveled 4139
Temp 32-43
Track
The real battle of the desert starts today, the Tanami in summer showed its true colours a blistering 43C for most of the day, JC was particularly struggling with the high temperatures and deep sand in patches although overall the track was in surprisingly good condition and so 100+ km/h were achievable in most parts so all was going well, we had reserve fuel for the extended km's we had to travel between stops (650km). But then a change of plan JC didn't want to travel to Bolga to re-fuel as it would mean travelling 35km off the track and a further 35km to return, he suggested travelling to Billiluna an additional 72km, Pete knew this would mean using up all fuel, he foolishly agreed and had to reduce his traveling speed in order to make up the short-fall in fuel. Well that was where the cunning new plan would start to unravel as when they reached Billiluna they had difficulties locating the campsite, leaving Pete red-lining on fuel. Temperatures and tempers reached boiling point when for the first time on this adventure the tables had turned and now Pete required help from JC in order to make it to the campsite JC unfortunately failed in this duty and deserted Pete when supposedly escorting Pete's near stricken vehicle to the campsite using even more fuel than was necessary. Lets just say a few words were spoken that cannot be reported in this blog given its G classification.
The campsite was ant ridden but had a great outlook over lake stretch, the temperature overnight did not drop below 37 and there was little to no wind (insert fart joke here). It made for a very un-comfortable bush camp.
The fate of Pete's fuel exhaustion would not be known until they returned to the fuel station (15km away) that would not be open until the next day at 8:00am.
Distance traveled 4139
Temp 32-43
Track
The real battle of the desert starts today, the Tanami in summer showed its true colours a blistering 43C for most of the day, JC was particularly struggling with the high temperatures and deep sand in patches although overall the track was in surprisingly good condition and so 100+ km/h were achievable in most parts so all was going well, we had reserve fuel for the extended km's we had to travel between stops (650km). But then a change of plan JC didn't want to travel to Bolga to re-fuel as it would mean travelling 35km off the track and a further 35km to return, he suggested travelling to Billiluna an additional 72km, Pete knew this would mean using up all fuel, he foolishly agreed and had to reduce his traveling speed in order to make up the short-fall in fuel. Well that was where the cunning new plan would start to unravel as when they reached Billiluna they had difficulties locating the campsite, leaving Pete red-lining on fuel. Temperatures and tempers reached boiling point when for the first time on this adventure the tables had turned and now Pete required help from JC in order to make it to the campsite JC unfortunately failed in this duty and deserted Pete when supposedly escorting Pete's near stricken vehicle to the campsite using even more fuel than was necessary. Lets just say a few words were spoken that cannot be reported in this blog given its G classification.
The campsite was ant ridden but had a great outlook over lake stretch, the temperature overnight did not drop below 37 and there was little to no wind (insert fart joke here). It made for a very un-comfortable bush camp.
The fate of Pete's fuel exhaustion would not be known until they returned to the fuel station (15km away) that would not be open until the next day at 8:00am.
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