DJ in the Big Red Land. Again!

[drbandit]

Dont do anything we wouldnt do.....

Be In touch

[ducatijim]

Now this is wot I call a BIG PUSSY-

480 Hp, 25 tonne, uses 60L diesel/hr and rides like a bloody dray!

[ducatijim]

And this bloody thing was lying in the sun on my back porch this morning-

[NordieBoy]

All we find lying around are these little buggers.



Vicious though, they'll have your leg off if you give them the chance.

[kevfromcoro]

And this bloody thing was lying in the sun on my back porch this morning-

Wat was it DJ ?
I had a run in with a King Brown a few weeks ago..
Seen a few snakes here.. most are ok.. get out the way
But that Brown was a right testy cunt of a thing..........

[ducatijim]

I belive it was a snake Kev, and brown. I didn't bother to enquire about its parents!

( I know, that will do me sooo much good at a&e when the bastard bites me!)

[kevfromcoro]

I belive it was a snake Kev, and brown. I didn't bother to enquire about its parents!

( I know, that will do me sooo much good at a&e when the bastard bites me!)

yeah the brown i saw was a nasty cunt... had a crack at 3 of us.....
the gardener turned up and hit him on the noggin with a spade.
still snapping his jaws trying to bite something
think the taipan is worse.....
dam snakes... hate them....
had a big one here the other day.... but he was ok...
a constrictor i think.......

[drbandit]

Thats why we live here... dont have to mountain bike over those things

[ducatijim]

Hi team, sorry for the lack of dilligence here, I have been too busy to adventure since my last post and my boss doesn't give us notice of a weekend off till late friday and by the time we get home around 6 its way too late to set out anywhere too far afield.
Today was little differant but the small adventure trip delivered big rewards-I overnited with the other guys of my crew in Esperance and set out at 0930 this morning for Cape Arid on Isralite bay.
Even though it was only 150km from Esp before I headed into the Cape Arid NP, for the 30km of washboard each way( in typical NP fashion their acess routes are designed to keep people AWAY not welcome them into their parks!!

[ducatijim]

The trip out to the start of the tracks was not as boring as expected, there were some corners and wee hills( really!) and of course I was interested in where they were in their farming season compared to my district so the journey went quickley.
I also scoped out a future plan to take a vague track from near here right up to Balladonia on the Nullarbor = next time!
30k of gravel after the seal ends, then the track of corrugations( remember Bass? too fast/too slow/just right?)....I tried the slow approach first, as I do, and that was loostening my fillings....aarrgh. I contemplated turning round....don't want to quit but, however I remember well the last time I went bush without anyone knowing ;I nearly perished from getting stuck in deep sand and running out of water....still vivid in my mind. Then I applied Bass's well tryed style and got up on the pegs and 'pressed-on'. Better!
Came across this wee guy crossing the track ahead of me, by the time I stopped and got the camera out he was almost into the scrub. I coaxed him back( that is I pickedhim up with my gloved hand and placed him in the road for a pix-he again applied some speed and was about to vanish before the pix, so, this pic came about-you could see the resignation on his face i reckon 'bloody tourists'!!

[ducatijim]

As usual in this country, you never see the sea until youre about to tip into it, but it was spectacular to see, beautiful white sand with huge seas breaking onto the shore one way and super smooth big boulders with spectacular breakers the other way. There was a good keen bloke there, well not there but his ute, boat trailer and boat tractor were there, along with 3 barrels of paua shells, not sure where the previous inhabitants of the shells had gone. I could not see their boat from up on the rox either so they must have brought a catch in and gone out for more?(differant?)
Took some pikkies and then set out back again, this time up on the pegs and getting along at 80-90kph I felt fully in control now and loving it! I am unloaded however and this contributes no small amount to the handling I bet!!
At the end of the NP track I decide to take a wee short cut that proved to be a battle of overgrown scrub and quite deep sand with a long sloping climb right at the end before getting back on the road....that climb had me focused I tell you! ( very bald Desert on back!!).

[ducatijim]

Anyone here ever driven 1 of these?
Its nearly as old as my wife and doesn't ride nearly as well.

!!

[Bass]

Anyone here ever driven 1 of these?
!!

Actually mate, I have, but it was only briefly and 40 years ago


No more electrical issues with the bike then, I presume?

[clint640]

Anyone here ever driven 1 of these?
!!

Is that what the boss gave ya to drive after you complained about the hard ride in the big crawler?

Cheers for the update, good to see the Darkie getting out & about again.

Clint

[SPman]

Anyone here ever driven 1 of these?

An old Acco International - there are still a few of those floating around the country areas... sort of the successor to the old WW2 Ford 4X4.....The lizard looks like a Bobtail or Blue tounge - we get those around the house - a good sign apparently, meant to keep the other snakes away and we haven't seen one in 4 yrs, so...
We've got a mate in Esperance who I think is in Ulysses - train driver - rides a BMW 1100, got a few BSA's as well - Spitfire3, Goldstar 500 and a couple of others.