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Day 7

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We left Delhunty River camp at around 8.30 and knew we were headed towards Gunshot crossing shortly. 😮. The The landscape is amazing through here today. From forests of gums to flowering grevillea's everywhere and then a couple of 'forests' of blackboy trees. Just beautiful. We hit gunshot at about 10.30 and after looking at the crazy crossing (photos of) we took the chicken track. Karl went through first then got in the muddy water and guided us through. Was easier than Palm Creek!!! At one of the crossings yogi was busy looking at karl and 'bang' ran into a little tree 😜😜. Just a scrape on the bullbar. We stopped at the grave of WJ Smith who was a maintenance man of the Telegraph Track and died in 1945. Lonely job! We stopped at Fruit Bat Falls - amazing place. Had a refreshing swim and on the road towards Elliot and twin falls. Just went in for a walk, but didn't swim. Had...

Day 6

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We left Moreton Telegraph station at 9 and headed to Bramwell Roadhouse. We fuelled up and let the air out of our tyres to start the Ild Telegraph Track (OTT). One way traffic only! Although there were a couple who got as far as the first crossing at Palm Crk and thought 'stuff this' and turned around and went back. We all got out of the cars (as well as many others waiting to see 'who goes first') the first crossing, we all decided was too steep and muddy - knee deep. So we walked up on the right hand side of this crossing and found another one. There were a few people waiting there also. This was the crossing we decided on. One fella drove across and instructed karl across on a hand held two-way. Greg was the second of our crew to go across and by the time we went across it was getting fairly chopped up as one guy didn't have his hubs locked in and was spinning. It was great as there were many onlookers...