Olsen's Tours and Training Blog

We enjoyed our time at the Dalhunty immensely. Yesterday Ted welded the tie rod adjuster for Craig’s Mazda at Bramwell Junction, so Craig had continued with us on the OTL witout any delay. We arranged via VKS737 to have a new tie rod adjuster ordered by Cape York Spares and Repairs with the hope that it would be at Bamaga when we arrived. I checked in via HF radio this morning to see how things were going, but there was no news.

We progressed along the OTL without incident, but the excitement was growing as we approached the notorious Gunshot Creek.

On arrival at Gunshot, we found the western entry to be the best choice, but once again the idiot brigade had been there with their logs. Once again with just a few shovels, we improved the entry point sufficiently to allow our vehicles access without risk of damage. A couple still required a small tow through the boggiest section, but we all managed to get through quite safely.

Sam creek proved to be our next challenge when Chris’ Disco II, sans centre diff lock got the front diff stuck on a rock in Sam Creek. Sam Creek is usually not a problem but the Landrover engineers who decided to leave the diff lock selector off the Disco II clearly had never been to Cape York.

After extracting the Disco we camped at Sam Creek.