Glendhu Station

07Nov06

5th November 2006

 After what was apparently a day of carnage on the Saturday, quite a few vehicles joined the guys already at Glendhu for the shiny Sunday drive. The vehicles were: Vitara, Patrol, Cherokee, Hilux (absolutely brand spanking new), Landcruiser, Wrangler x2 and a Mu.

We headed off around the coast in what turned out to be a virtually breezeless, hot sunny day. The baches around Glendhu coast surprised me, a mixture of what was obviously the old original ones right through to a new one with big decks, from rough to brand new and quite flash.

The track was easy as pie and we headed back to the Honeycomb rock for lunch, where I scrambled to the top to investigate iron rods we could see poking out. There was fairly extensive concrete work on the top and we figured it was for an old coastal light to warn shipping (mustve worked very well…with a shipwreck on the beach approximately 100 metres south of the light!).

The rock formations were amazing, with perfectly spherical “marbles” set into the rock as well as other strange anomalies which I thought were definately invented to mess with your mind!

 After a good dose of sunburn for lunch we drove back around the beach and up onto the hilltop. By this time the sea was all whitecaps and the wind up on the hill was amazing. I jumped out to hook a strop onto a vehicle and barely kept myself from sailing out over the seacliffs, cars were rocking all over the show, and apparently we have eyewitness reports of the Cherokee’s roof panels actually rippling in the wind!

 Whilst the tracks were easy along the hills of course Murphy has other plans and only about 500 metres from the end of the day we came around a corner to a creek crossing and a hole which, as it turns out, a bulldozer appears to have been stuck in! Rather muddy and deep…

Of course this only added to the enjoyment! Mud for the shinies and without risk of any panel damage, what more could you ask for? So we winched and stropped everyone through.

 The only damage from the day was a Wrangler shock absorber got ripped off in the mudhole.

 No piccies though as some idiot left the camera at home!

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