Yesterday's extra day at Mornington meant more driving
today. I thought we might be ok to get into Manning Gorge for a quick look
after refuelling, but since a tour bus loaded with seniors beat us there and
were clogging the boat crossing, we thought that they'd probably be walking
slowly and unsteadily along the narrow paths after it, so discretion would be
best course and made a bee line for Drysdale.
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| The only way across the creek... |
All was going well until we turned off the GRR, and then the
corrugated a kicked in. Oh boy did they kick in. For those that have driven the
Great Central Road, these were worse. Within 5kms my UHF antenna had snapped
off while I was trying to match speed with bone jarring vibrations that threatened
to bounce my bull bar over my bonnet. Thankfully it was only patchy and we made
decent time to arrive at Drysdale for 3pm. Then I found the licence plate only
just made it with us. Another victim of the corrugations. It had cracked around
the bolt holes. A couple of washers later (kindly donated by the station), and
hopefully it will stay put. Still, only another 90kms of corrugations until
Mitchell plateau and apparently the grader has just gone through there!
At this point I have to make a note about Drysdale Station.
We chose to stay at the station campsite rather than go to Miners Pool as the
thought of washing machines and a last night to charge electronics were
tempting. It's a great place. The showers are fabulous. Best in the trip so far
and the bar is close, friendly and cheap.
What more do you need?
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| Sunset at Drysdale |
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