Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The Shakedown Trip

We decided to go to Sundown National Park for Easter to give all the truck and trailer modifications a test run over the rough 4wd track into the park. The track to the camping grounds takes about 2 hours and is low range all the way with lots of bumps and rocks.

Unfortunately when we paid for our camping permit the week before Easter, the National Parks Ranger forgot to mention that the recent floods had washed away the nice camp sites at Reedy Waterhole (henceforth referred to as "Shadeless Shithole") so we decided to make the best of it in a pretty featureless paddock. Lucky for us we were the first people to arrive at the camp grounds so we were able to pick the best site - it had a few shrubs around it so we only had 10 hours of direct sunlight each day, which was luxury compared to those poor sods who arrived after us!

On a positive note the Severn River provided nice spot to cool down (just had to watch out for leeches) and we caught quite a few yabbies and a catfish. The lack of facilities gave us the chance test our latest rig changes in a bush camping environment and everything worked well - including the Easter Bunny turning up!