B3R55-28 the real mud grabs us. BOG MOTEL camp.

            See notes Monday 8-7-68  speedo @ 9085km  Bog#11

The story as read from the diary..to the iPad...

The afternoon visited the Met. station, and then we drove on and crossed the Giles Creek. nearly installed in the creek pushed our way out the Collard &  co had been hold up here for a few days till the Creek went down. It had been so high as 4 feet but was down to about 8 inches when we came across. The car nearly stalled when it hit the water, but recovered, and we climbed out OK.

John and co were about an hour and a half ahead of us. Just after we got through the creek we could hear a dull thudding. 

We travelled on for about a half a mile,  saw about 100 yards of mud ahead. We stopped and scouted around the side, found vehicle tracks everywhere all going and turning and coming back.  We found a way through by Mary sitting up on the roo bar and directing Bill to the anthills, there are quite a few with hard areas around them, we drove from anthill to anthill.

About a quarter mile through the bush, we came upon John up to his diff in soft stuff. Bog#9.  The thudding we had heard earlier was the old men chopping down trees to use as leavers.

Took an hour and a quarter to get him out and then moved on a bit further. We got through easily about 300 yards further up the road he had unhitched the trailer and unloaded the passengers and had a go at some mud but the whole right side, disappeared up to the bottom of the doors in soft, wet mud, so we all started digging. !!  Bog#10

Then we saw another Land Rover on the other side of the last mud so I drove back and showed them how to get around they were four Met blokes coming out to see how things were going.

We Dug and levered and Dug and pushed and got out after nearly at an hour.

We continued on at 40 mph for a couple of miles, we went over a soft spot (9085 Speedo) and stopped to warn John but he went in, should have had a look because our ruts were deep.  Bog#11 His back left wheel disappeared. It was 4:30 by the time we looked like getting out.  So we made Camp.  It was a jacking job and we used slabs of schist as a pavement to rest the jack on to stop it sinking in the mud.  Got out of the porridge at sundown and sat around the campfire and had toast for supper. Then bed...

We made a stone sign.. BOG MOTEL  C.C.S 7.7.68  RIP
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