Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Road show.
Some of you have been asking about doing
the Canning Stock Route, about any you know kind of tips,
or what should you expect
so I'm gonna do a series just on that topic.
I'm gonna start, this is the first
with Erika and Murray, my trip leaders.
They're from the Getaway Four-wheel Drive Club
& in June July last year we did the Getaway Canning
Stock Route trip so... over to Erika and Murray.
Preparation for the Canning Stock Route
started about six months before we
actually went on the stock route.
It might have been a bit longer than that.
We got the car set up exactly what it would be like on the
Canning Stock Route.
We took everything I was supposed to take
and we done a two-week trip from Eucla
through to Israelite Bay
but that was a set for the car for the stock route.
We had new shockies put in.
We had the weight of the fuel that we were taking with us
extra fuel, everything was on that trip
and if we had any breakdowns on that trip
we get them sorted out before the Canning Stock Route.
It was ok but the Canning Stock Route is just unforgiving.
What anything that you prepare for...
it just does not come out, the stock route will bring it out
because it's that rough. It's so bad.
People say it's piece of cake .Well it's all the preparation
you put into it to make it a piece of cake but
if you don't do it properly
Taking along a good 1st Aid Kit, it think is really important.
We had a really huge big 1st Aid Kit.
We had everything we could possibly need
splints to bandages, we had medication everything
like that and that was in the car
but everyone had their own individual 1st Aid Kit
with the panadol and band-aids and everything like that.
But you really need to think ahead you know...
snakebites, having all the bandages & everything close by.
You know anyone that cuts themselves to have stuff to
fix it up up straightaway but you also need things in bulk
because you know you've got dressings if anyone gets
an infection. We took along a supply of Panadol.
We actually had some antibiotics
because there's no doctors or hospitals.
and you have to take into account you can be out there
for three or four weeks. You need all these things.
We took stuff if they had diarrhea which is really important
but fortunately we didn't need much
but you have to be prepared.
Yeah we made sure that all our health was up to date,
teeth checked, filled everything.
But when you get a toothache
the one thing we found we didn't have was the aspirin
and that's one thing we needed for toothache.
One thing need to think about
Everyone had this medical form.
They filled it out and had next-of-kin, had
their medical conditions. It had Medicare number,
HBF (insurance) number, anything like that
because just in case of any severe accident, rollover
when the partner was incapacitated & the other person
was in the state of shock and couldn't give any details
We can call the RFDS (flying dr)
and get them you know evacuated out.
You wanted to know a little bit of their medical history -
it was there.
What medications they are on, their history,
the next-of-kin to contact them because in an
emergency your mind just goes a blank.
I thought that was really important
to have for everyone's safety.
It was put in a sealed envelope and it's put in either
their glove box or the trip leaders glove box.
Only to be opened in case of emergency
All these little bits and pieces that have been ironed out
before we have a stock route and on the stock route,
it makes all the other trips now just that little bit easier,
not complacent, but a little bit easier
We decided that everyone should actually carry
a spare car key and some people would
leave their spare key with a spouse in the purse
or anything and you could actually leave the key
in your envelope that had all your medical details
in someone else's glovebox. So if you happened to
lose your key or lock it in your car at least someone
had the spare key to get it out which was really handy
People who have actually done the trip before
it's very helpful to talk to them
and Mr. Canning Stock Route, Phil Bianchi,
he was very very helpful you know. He talked
us through things told us things that could happen
so we could do things with a plan that would help us
and it was awesome. It's very good.
We actually got a couple of books.
We had Phil Bianchi's Canning Stock Route book
Work Completed.
There was another book that was very interesting.
It had all the different wells and what to see at the wells,
the history of them.
We did a lot of Googling and finding out things about
the stock route, what people had seen.
We also got onto the sites of a lot of tour companies
that actually did the stock route and
we saw what they saw and you know.
We made sure we weren't going to miss out on anything
so if they went to see it we went to see it.
Before we went, we'd actually worked out roughly
day by day what we're going to see.
We knew we had about four or five weeks so we planned it
But that was always open to flexibility.
If people wanted to see something that
wasn't on the guide we'd slot it in.
If they found that we had allocated 2 days to
see something and we saw it in one we'd just move on.
There was a lot of flexibility.
We wanted to make it everyone's trip not just our trip.
We said if there's anything you want to see tell us
and we'll try and incorporate it.
At the same time we made sure we didn't deviate too far
from the actual plan
I'm very lucky. We've got two CBs in the car
and I didn't realise how important having 2 CBs was
until we were actually on the track.
Both CBs are hard mounted in the car.
We could talk to the group, the cars that were behind us
on one and then talk ahead on the other and
Erika had done that side.
So what we'd do is we would be on channel 19 talking to
the rest of the group you know telling them we're going
to go over a sand hill. It's a bit soft or any hazards
on the road, any camels or anything like that
and then we'd be able to get onto the channel 40
and what we would do is radio ahead and say
we're a vehicle of five, we're a convoy of five vehicles
and we're travelling between let's say well 39
and well 40 heading from north to south
and if there are any other vehicles on the track
could you make yourselves known.
That gave us an idea if there are
any other vehicles traveling towards us
because there's a lot of sand dunes,
a lot of blind hills and if you happen to
meet someone along the track and you
don't know that they're there you could
actually have quite a nasty accident
A lot of people that do the stock route don't communicate.
It's funny enough the older people will communicate
but it's the younger ones are not communicating.
We can hear them chatting away but
they weren't communicating with us.
Channel 40 on the stock route is not a communication channel
for chit chat. It's to let other vehicles know
that you're on the track
That's all it's there for and you can
swap channels to talk to one another, what's going on.
But some people just don't talk and some people have
been very very good to us.
They actually say they're coming with 2 trailers
and they'll pull over and wait for us to go past.
So some are very good and others are very very bad.
Very dangerous. You know because
we knew that there were people out there. You
could hear them talking on the channel 40
and you'd put the call across to say
that you're traveling from the north to south
and they wouldn't acknowledge you.
You know there was just absolutely no response and
you could hear them laughing saying Oh did you hear
that call? but they wouldn't tell you where they were
so you had no idea when you're actually
going to come in contact with them.
Fortunately there was one time we were talking to this
guy and he was travelling from south to north
and we knew we were going to come across him on the
track so we're very wary. As we're going up the sand hills
and even though he knew we were coming up
and we knew that he was coming towards us
we didn't know where we'd meet.
And just as we both peaked at the top of this sand hill
we saw each other. So we both had to roll back down.
Now if we hadn't communicated
we would have gone belting up the hill
and we probably would have hit him at the top
Back to Mr. Canning Stock Route, Phil Bianchi,
when he told us that he couldn't make it, we
asked him straight away
you wouldn't have any flag points for the stock route?
So he gave us this little stick and we put it into...I bought a
little touch pad and downloaded what he had on there
from Paynes Find right through to
the Canning Stock Route and back.
Phil, he's done it a number of times as you well know
and he had lots of little flags for us. We tried to
stay at these flags in fact we stay at most flags
or visited the flags along the way.
It was so important that we didn't realise how important
it was until we came to
because it's not road signs out there We come to the T
intersection. You can look up on the on the screen
and you can say ...Erika gets on the two-way and says turn right or
left at this intersection. Very important
to have, to do your homework on that.
You can actually, you could actually just go
along and get through it but it would be very hard going
and it's very very important
to have some sort of mapping system
That one where we were heading out to Diebel Springs
and we came over the sand hill
We got down to the bottom and of course
one road went to the right one to the
left and we thought okay
Jeremy and the others have gone to the left but our GPS
thing is more or less saying go to the right
so we stopped there. We called the others back
and we had a look and there was a sign
a black sign that everything had faded
there was nothing on it,
but if you look really closely you could see
the marker pointing to the right.
Now that was on the ground where no one
could see. It was just fortunate we had the little GPS
thing that we could follow, otherwise we would have
missed out on Diebel Springs and gone straight
to Durba Spring
Was it 47..? One of the wells that the
water was really really high and there's
no way we could find it to get to the well and so even if
our map was saying go and there was water.
That was 26. 26 sorry it was 26. That's ok.
And the water, there was no way you could get your car
in there. So we had to divert way up and around
and once we took up then we got back on the track
it came up where we were but Jeremy, he had a
different mapping system to what we had.
There is a quite a few on the market out there
and Jeremy's was really really good
and the one that we just had google no um
can't remember...The Hema
We had Hema maps and that was very good and with
Phil's flags it was good. We would have been lost
without those...
Please take a paper map because
it just takes a little bit of water to get in
the system and you not very good because
your system shuts down, its no good at all.
We lose power things like that...
Corrugations are about that by about that deep
and it just shook the car to...it didn't shake it to pieces
but it certainly put it through its paces
and I happen to snap the left hand
mounting bolt on the radiator and so we
zip tied it all together, put towels down round it
and it done it it done it
it done the job really well plus
with since the corrugations are so rough the
bolts that hold the muffler system onto the gearbox
they wiggled out so of course
the exhaust pipe broke broke off at the manifold
so had to wire that on
So the preparation, you can't prep it for that
you just can't you can put..you can carry a whole garage
with you so it's really hard and you just
Drive to the conditions that's all you gotta do...hopefully
Some of the things that we took you know
we had a big list of things from welders,
welding rods, angle grinders everything.
You think you know why would you need
those? But fortunately we didn't need those
but there was a bus tour that actually radiod ahead
and they wanted to know if we had a welder, welding rod
angle grinder because what did they do?
they snapped the front wheel off their vehicle
The communities will ask for your permit
and they can make it very difficult or
they can make it very easy
Now we knew that we'd need extra fuel.
We worked it all out and we'd also looked at
the Facebook and all the rest of the stuff.
We talked to people. They said that there is a fuel drop
that fuel is brought out from Newman and dropped at
well 23 and you get it in 44 gallon drums
and it's about $395 for the 44 gallon drum
You have to preorder it back in Perth and when you
get up there they've got all these big drums all lined up
and it's got the name of different people
that have ordered them.
You go up to the drum that's got your name on
and that's the fuel you've ordered.
We possibly could have got by without ordering the fuel
but we thought we'll err on the side of caution.
We've gotten this far the stock route
and we just don't want to be stranded
without fuel especially with five vehicles so we had it as a
precautionary measure just in case we did any extra
trips or anything happened to any of our fuel tanks.
So it's well worth getting the fuel.
The people that provide the fuel
there is a pump there (it does not work) but we took our
own pump with us we took a Tanami pump
I would definitely not take as much stuff.
I took too many clothes. You really only need a change
of clothes and also would not take as much food
because we came back with heaps of food.
You just overestimate how much you're going to eat
and because you're sitting in the car all day.
You just don't eat!
The only thing is maybe
stay a couple more days at different places
have a good look around but em
when you get, once you get in that mood
of travelling you just don't want to stop.
It's so good!
I think a good trip leader is one that will actually
listen to people you know
You can go in and pretend you know everything
and make out that it's your trip
and you're doing everyone a favor
but I think a good trip leader listens
to everyone and it makes them feel as though
it's their trip as well as yours. Exactly right.
Make them feel comfortable to say I want to see this
or I've seen enough of this or yeh
at the end of the day we've still got the ultimate say
in things but it's everyone's trip. They've saved up hard.
They've done a lot of preparation.
We want everyone to enjoy it and feel
comfortable to speak their minds.
Being comfortable to speak and their minds
I think that goes down well
To actually know what you're going to see
we could have gone out there not knowing anything
about the stock group just fumbled along and
pretend we've known things but to
actually do a bit of reading beforehand
a bit of research, preparation. Know what's happened
beforehand and if you don't know something
you just own up to it. You don't go pretending
you know something and you just look it up after.
just look it up after.
Murray and Erika were the most fantastic Trip Leaders
and I just think wow! you know out of 10 they were 11!
So I hope you've enjoyed some of
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