Broken bucket to Culburrra S.A via the Border Trail (Red Bluff)

The morning was looking a little ominous weather wise so we struck camp fairly quickly so we could continue northwards again.

Once out on the Murrayville rd again we took the turnoff for chinamans flat so wecould hopefully find the rings Corinna had lost the afternoon before (fingers crossed ).

6 kms down the sandy track we began comparing the track against the photos she happened to take  while the kids  were out jumping on the sand dunes.

we were in luck with the  comparison as we could easily see the different  flora and then the kids footprints heading down the dune where i had pulled over and within aonly a few minutes all 7 rings were back on associated fingers and tears of joy were flowing my beautiful wifes face .

I found a hard packed area up ahead and headed back to the Murrayville rd to rehich the camper up where i had hidden it only 30 minutes before with Deakin university students trackside no doubt wondering what was going on

The road along the park boundary was fairly good going execepting some sof sand and massive wet boggy sections through the massive fire break area .

We actually passed a fellow traveller heading towards us and about a slow hour later a large very sand dune appeared in front so i aired down further as i had my doubts we would make it up ,

it  was all a little short lived as i started to rev her for the run up i spotted a chicken run to the right hand side and passed to the side of the dune system and passed around it .

The going was slow and very bumpy and at some stage we scraped the drawbar and cut an anderson plug lead but only just exposed the lead (easily  fixed with heat shrink that night!) .

we finally made the Border Trail section and traversed the border several times and became amazed at the size of the bog holes further  south and rabbit warrens abound.

The bikes became dislodged a few times unfortunately due to low hanging dead trees ass we dodged around several car sized bogholes .

Once  we reached the Emu Flat section we darted out to a sealed road as rain was starting to spit down on us and soon after we were in Bordertown for a very late lunch and a few supplies and some much needed stop for diesel.

There was only 2 hors of daylight left after this so we pulled stumps just out of Coonalpyn at a place called Culburra at a out of  the way track alongside te railway line.

That night we dined on chicken and pumpkin risotto around the fire and slept soundly .