Where it happened and the result
Cooking up the Fish caught at the waterhole
Oops the new car up to the running board
Mud flats on the Diamantina
Crossing the Diamantina
After the flood Diamantina
I am not very good at handling this blog thing particularly transferring photographs
It is Friday the 14th May and we have arrived in Alice Springs after just a little excitement.
We travelled the 186 kms back from Boulia to Diamantina National Park where we spent 2 nights and caught a great feed of fish (Grunter) and did some 4 wheel driving towards Lake Constance an Internationally renowned wetland however got one vehicle bogged to the running boards (Dave Tolmer’s new Toyota) He had gone so far in we had to use 3 snatch straps joined together to make the recovery. We missed the wetland which was a bit disappointing.
We returned to Boulia and decided to have dinner at the Pub and joined the locals for a bit of dancing on the tables etc and refuelled for the next leg of the trip across the Donahue and Plenty Highways.
We camped out on the Georgina River for one night and the Arthur River for two nights great bird life no water but could certainly see where it had been both between 500 metres and a Kilometre wide.
Drama with the van again the fridge once again decided to pack it in on the road to Arthur River.
Last night out we camped at Spotted Tiger camp site in the Hart Range just south of the Aboriginal Community Attjere. We met Trevour the only other camper at the camp. Trevour is a youth worker from Adelaide and brings Kids some Aboriginal and some white from age 10 to Bush walk in the area. He is an interesting guy and new all about the local aborigines, the gems fossickers come from all over Australia to find and the vegetation and how it is used by The Aborigines. We talked late into the night and Trevour agreed to take us for a short bush walk in the morning to an Aboriginal Sacred Site.
We arrived at the site where there was some beautiful coloured stone which we had to clamber over. As Pat was attempting to climb onto the rocks with Rob Hutch’s assistance she slipped and dislocated her shoulder. Extremely painful and after some time seated on the rock Trevour agreed to bring his Toyota in to transport her back to camp. We dosed her up with Panadene Forte and I drove as carefully as I could over the corrugations to the bitumen and the two hundred kms to Alice Springs and the hospital emergency.
They dosed Pat up with Morphine and more Panadene Forte and took X-Rays which highlighted the dislocation had also caused a fracture to the humurus and chipped the bone where the ligaments attach to the humurus. Have since seen 2 Orthopaedic Surgeons and is having CAT scan on Monday and a third opinion from another Orthopaedic Surgeon from Adelaide. Surgery is not out of the question.
Have had CAT Scan no further update
We travelled the 186 kms back from Boulia to Diamantina National Park where we spent 2 nights and caught a great feed of fish (Grunter) and did some 4 wheel driving towards Lake Constance an Internationally renowned wetland however got one vehicle bogged to the running boards (Dave Tolmer’s new Toyota) He had gone so far in we had to use 3 snatch straps joined together to make the recovery. We missed the wetland which was a bit disappointing.
We returned to Boulia and decided to have dinner at the Pub and joined the locals for a bit of dancing on the tables etc and refuelled for the next leg of the trip across the Donahue and Plenty Highways.
We camped out on the Georgina River for one night and the Arthur River for two nights great bird life no water but could certainly see where it had been both between 500 metres and a Kilometre wide.
Drama with the van again the fridge once again decided to pack it in on the road to Arthur River.
Last night out we camped at Spotted Tiger camp site in the Hart Range just south of the Aboriginal Community Attjere. We met Trevour the only other camper at the camp. Trevour is a youth worker from Adelaide and brings Kids some Aboriginal and some white from age 10 to Bush walk in the area. He is an interesting guy and new all about the local aborigines, the gems fossickers come from all over Australia to find and the vegetation and how it is used by The Aborigines. We talked late into the night and Trevour agreed to take us for a short bush walk in the morning to an Aboriginal Sacred Site.
We arrived at the site where there was some beautiful coloured stone which we had to clamber over. As Pat was attempting to climb onto the rocks with Rob Hutch’s assistance she slipped and dislocated her shoulder. Extremely painful and after some time seated on the rock Trevour agreed to bring his Toyota in to transport her back to camp. We dosed her up with Panadene Forte and I drove as carefully as I could over the corrugations to the bitumen and the two hundred kms to Alice Springs and the hospital emergency.
They dosed Pat up with Morphine and more Panadene Forte and took X-Rays which highlighted the dislocation had also caused a fracture to the humurus and chipped the bone where the ligaments attach to the humurus. Have since seen 2 Orthopaedic Surgeons and is having CAT scan on Monday and a third opinion from another Orthopaedic Surgeon from Adelaide. Surgery is not out of the question.
Have had CAT Scan no further update
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