Our group of 11 vehicles for the day met up at Muchea as planned. We had a range of experienced drivers on the trip and a few visitors, so we first had a detailed discussion on convoy procedure. We then headed to Julimar and let down our tyres before heading north along a boundary track. There were a few puddles and steep ascents and descents.
We stopped for morning tea and then kept on travelling until lunch time. As advertised, after lunch I headed for the more difficult tracks. These involved deeply rutted steep descents and ascents and a couple of vehicles needed a pull out of some spots. We passed “dummy spit” hill (according to the sign on a tree) but no one spat the dummy.
The final challenge was a flooded section of track with a vertical drop into the bog hole. Lorraine dropped in after me and she got caught on a tree root on the edge. We recovered her backwoods and then she dropped in on an angle and made it. The rest of the convoy then made it, before we headed back to the road at about 5pm to pump up our tyres.
A fun day with scenery, technical and challenging 4wdriving.
