06-26-2007, 12:00 AM
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Oldfart's road trip.
We left Darwin headed for Broome about 1400 miles (2000km) to the west. It's through some of the most desolate country, a green desert filled with inedible prickly plants and free range cattle. The rainy season's just over and the ground's drying out at an incredible rate.
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06-26-2007, 12:05 AM
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This part of the country was once described as the "bones of mighty mountains strewn across an ancient landscape".
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06-26-2007, 12:16 AM
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The road to the Wolf Creek Crater (laughingly referred to as the Tanami Highway) is a thousand miles of corrugations, washouts, creek beds, sand patches and rocks the size of oranges. Sometimes even all at once.
I tore out a tyre at 120kph (75 mph) and thought I was going to roll the car.
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06-26-2007, 12:26 AM
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The crater was about 20km off the highway on a rough-graded road that was mostly better than the main road. The only really tough part was crossing Wolf Creek's dry bed, littered with football and canteloupe sized rocks. No way was a 2 wheel drive doing that (I have an all-wheel drive).
Someone had built a cairn up on the rim. The crater is an intact meteorite crater which still has shock-rings visible after 300,000 years.
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06-26-2007, 12:30 AM
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I went into the crater.
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06-26-2007, 12:36 AM
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The rim of the crater was loose rock, one mis-step and I was in trouble.
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