Initial notes from our Kimberley trip

Hello all,
Some stuff to begin with - maybe more to come as time permits.

We have returned from our longest jaunt ever - 7 weeks and 4 days - in Mobi from Adelaide to Alice to Halls Creek via Tanami - Bungles - Kununurra - Wyndham - El Questro - Gibb River Road - Drysdale River - Mt Elizabeth (rained in there for 6 days) - Derby - Fitzroy Crossing - Broome - Panawonnica - Onslow - Tom Price - Willuna - Kalgoorlie - Nullabor - Home. Longest day was 665 k, shortest was 300 metres (when we shifted Mobi to dryer terrain on Mt Elizabeth Station!)

Travelled 11700 k - and we had a ball.

Lots of details soon available. 3000+ images.

The BT performed just brilliantly over sealed highway, rocks, corrugations, through rough dry rocky creeks, about 270 k of Gibb River Road when slushy and 60 - 90 k of that was PURE SLUSH! Boy did the BT get dirty. Mobi was the "Official Clothes Drying Cabinet" for the 24 folk delayed with us for the three solid days of rain at Mt Elizabeth.

The 80 Series with 1HZ was turbo'd just prior to the trip and we returned 9% better fuel economy with 1.5 to 2 gears advantage on the long dragging climbs.

So now we have to settle down a bit - have to go back to w... on Monday!

But we still have to wash Mobi down (Water restrictions mean a lovingly hand washed effort all over) - will have to hire a pressure cleaner for the under body though!

Cheers - Ian & Sally